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Count Luna
Taschenbuch von Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Sprache: Englisch

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At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating a neighbor's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge.

Years later the war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky, deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides to hunt down Luna-and his years-long chase after the spectral count finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome...

The nightmare logic of Count Luna comes from deep within Jessiersky's festering fears and serves up his brooding, insanity-spiced, delicious disquisitions-on what the Etruscans knew, on cemeteries as originally "sleeping places"-before coming at last to death itself: "Well, well, well, thought Jessiersky, swallowing hard. So you do die after all. You refuse to believe that someday you will die but then you die. And you don't even notice it. And yet the fact that you don't is the best thing about dying..."
At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating a neighbor's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge.

Years later the war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky, deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides to hunt down Luna-and his years-long chase after the spectral count finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome...

The nightmare logic of Count Luna comes from deep within Jessiersky's festering fears and serves up his brooding, insanity-spiced, delicious disquisitions-on what the Etruscans knew, on cemeteries as originally "sleeping places"-before coming at last to death itself: "Well, well, well, thought Jessiersky, swallowing hard. So you do die after all. You refuse to believe that someday you will die but then you die. And you don't even notice it. And yet the fact that you don't is the best thing about dying..."
Über den Autor
The greatest novelist of the netherworld darkness stretching on beyond death, Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1895-1977) was born into the aristocracy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His novels have been acclaimed for their "dauntless panache: fast-moving, cleverly convoluted, terrific" (Eileen Battersby, Irish Times).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780811229616
ISBN-10: 0811229610
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
Übersetzung: Greene, Jane B.
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Maße: 203 x 134 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
preigu-id: 117681693
Über den Autor
The greatest novelist of the netherworld darkness stretching on beyond death, Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1895-1977) was born into the aristocracy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His novels have been acclaimed for their "dauntless panache: fast-moving, cleverly convoluted, terrific" (Eileen Battersby, Irish Times).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780811229616
ISBN-10: 0811229610
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
Übersetzung: Greene, Jane B.
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Maße: 203 x 134 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
preigu-id: 117681693
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