Eros - Softcover

Krausser, Helmut

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933372583 ISBN 13: 9781933372587

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2008

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?Compelling, historical, poetical, sensitive, erotic?this wonderful novel is all this and much more.??Express

Alexander von Br�cken, a reclusive millionaire with an enigmatic past, invites an unnamed writer to stay in his mansion and ghostwrite his autobiography. The writer will be well paid for his efforts, and literary fame is virtually guaranteed; von Br�cken?s only stipulation is that the book not be published until after his death. But could the story he recounts?a tale of greed, fanaticism, and erotic obsession?be little more than a dazzling fabrication, the bitter fruit of unrequited love? The play of truth and fiction combine with fine storytelling in this novel about the dangerous games that Eros plays with us.

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About the Author:

Helmut Krausser is a novelist, poet, diarist, dramaturge, composer, and screenwriter. His novels The Great Bagarozy and Fat World have been adapted for the screen, both starring J�rgen Vogel.

About the Translator

Mike Mitchell was shortlisted for the Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Thomas Bernhard?s Over All the Mountain Tops. His translation of Werner Schwab?s The Round of Pleasure was performed in fall 2007 by the New Stage Theatre Company, New York.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this intriguing, disconcerting novel of unrequited love from Berlin writer Krausser (The Great Bagarozy), Alexander von Br�cken, a cloistered and ailing millionaire, narrates his life to an unnamed novelist. Young Alex comes of age under Hitler and Allied air raids. His parents die tragically; he narrowly escapes death himself, eventually taking over the family armament business, which continues to thrive after the war. Throughout his life, von Br�cken (as he's called as an adult) pines for Sofie Kurtz, the daughter of workers at the family factory, who was his first kiss at 14. For Sophie, Alex is a blip on her childhood radar, but Alex uses his influence to track and even shape the course of Sophie's life as she moves from kindergarten teacher to Red Army Front revolutionary to demoralized exile in the German Democratic Republic. As Alex and the novelist reconstruct, imagine and otherwise intrude upon Sofie's life, the line between truth and fiction disappears—and along with it, the illusion of free will. Mitchell's able translation showcases Krausser's keen investigation of memory and the motivations for loving and telling tales. (Aug.)
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