Download or read book Baron Bagge Count Luna written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by Eridanos Library. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two short novels deal with the experiences of a military officer at the close of World War I, and with the guilt of an industrialist who inadvertently causes Count Luna to be sent to a concentration camp in war-torn Europe

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Download or read book Count Luna Two Tales of the Real and the Unreal written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Count Luna written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian writer mixes fact and fancy in these Gothic tales, ironic parables about guilt and sin.

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Download or read book Count Luna written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed 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...”

Download or read book Count Luna written by Baron Bagge and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baron Bagge written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at the beginning of WWI. The baron leads a desperate charge across a bridge to meet the Russian forces, following the orders of his mentally unstable commander: “We were soon to have proof of his unreliability… But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so many men and horses, took place in order that something which could no longer happen within the realm of the living—because it was too late—could happen after life.” And, swaying in a kind of fugue, the baron wanders off the bridge into unknown realms, where—mesmerized by Lernet-Holenia’s phosphorescent style—the reader joins his waking dream.

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

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Download or read book The Invisible Player written by Giuseppe Pontiggia and published by Eridanos Library. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Anna Cancogni. A novel, winner of Italy's Campiello Prize, that describes the gradual breakdown of a modern intellectual in the face of the inexplicable. It portrays a university professor's attempt to discover the true identity of the author who sends him a string of threatening letters. Eventually, he comes to see that the "invisible player" is not merely behind his back, but within his soul.

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