Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
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品牌: Weiss
基本信息·出版社：ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
·页码：350 页
·出版日期：2010年08月
·ISBN：0980033039
·International Standard Book Number：0980033039
·条形码：9780980033038
·EAN：9780980033038
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介"Ernst Weiss is in fact one of the few writers who may justly be compared to Franz Kafka."--Thomas Mann Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a tragicomic but ultimately harrowing portrait of a morally defective mind. Written in a highly unreliable first person narrative, this unsung masterwork is an account of a crime and its aftermath: the scientist-hero (or scientist-villain) is tried, sentenced, and deported to a tropical island where he is privileged to work as an epidemiologist. He seeks redemption in science, but in spite of himself he is a man of feeling. The book came out of the same central European inter-war climate that produced The Man Without Qualities and The Sleepwalkers; like those books and the works of Ernst Weiss' friend Franz Kafka, Georg Letham is a precient depiction of a profoundly unsettled society. Ernst Weiss (1882-1940), born in Brunn, Austria (now Brno, Czech Republic), spoke and wrote in German. He was a trained physician and surgeon and served as a ship's doctor for many years. He met Kafka in Berlin in 1913 and was convinced to write full-time. Weiss was a Jew and committed suicide in Paris when the Nazis entered the city in 1940. Joel Rotenberg translated Stefan Zweig's Chess Story and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Lord Chandos Letter for The New York Review of Books Classics series.
媒体推荐Mixing Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock with Dostoevsky, a chilling exploration of a deviant mind.
