Bibliograph

Baron Bagge, Alexander Lernet-Holenia ; translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston ; with a foreword by Patti Smith ; and three letters of Stefan Zweig and Alexander Lernet-Holenia, with a note by Arturo Larcati

Type

Label

Baron Bagge, Alexander Lernet-Holenia ; translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston ; with a foreword by Patti Smith ; and three letters of Stefan Zweig and Alexander Lernet-Holenia, with a note by Arturo Larcati

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Baron Bagge

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1304244652

Responsibility statement

Alexander Lernet-Holenia ; translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston ; with a foreword by Patti Smith ; and three letters of Stefan Zweig and Alexander Lernet-Holenia, with a note by Arturo Larcati

Series statement

New Directions paperbook, NDP1544

Summary

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. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification