A sad affair
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Author
Publication
2004 - W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY
Language
English
Word Count
44,000 words, Guess
Page Count
176 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22535252M
- ISBN-100393057186
- OCLC Control Number51613881
- OCLC Control Numbersadaffair0000koep
- Library of Congress Control Number2003002212
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1365692
- Goodreads2326521
Classifications
- LCCPT2621.O46 U613 2003
Description
"Set during the heady, pre-World War II days of cabaret-era Germany, the novel centers on the unrequited affair between Sibylle - a stunning seductress who strings along five men at a time - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who pursues her obsessively. In a series of episodic flashbacks, Koeppen, with a cinematic vividness and intensity that anticipate Beat literature by nearly twenty years, tracks the doomed couple first to Zurich and then to the mysterious streets of Venice. Friedrich is a vibrant comic creation, "an amok runner of love," energetic but inept, modest yet exorbitant - the epitome of a talented, striving young artist. Sibylle, glamorous and indifferent, remains as alluring a femme fatale as Salome."--Jacket.
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