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The Orient-Express (1992)
EN HCISBN: 9780394573472 bzw. 0394573471, in Englisch, Grove Press, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebundenes Buch, mit Einband.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Zeno's.
New York. 1992. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. Translated from the German by H. F. Broch De Rothermann. 181 pages. October 1992. hardcover. Front-of jacket art: Altered photograph by Barbara de Wilde. Photograph provided by Art Resource, New York. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. 0394573471. keywords: Literature Translated Germany. inventory # 17396. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The unnamed protagonist of this brilliantly written, powerfully affecting novel-by the critically acclaimed author of MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE and THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR-is Central European by birth but American since World War II: a man shaped in equal measure by the breeding and wealth he inherited and the cynicism he mastered on his own. Suddenly, without warning or farewell, he removes himself from the arena of his daily life: from his work, his wife, his home, all his commitments. An inarticulate impatience has impelled him from New York to San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Bangkok, `from one laminated plastic luxury hostelry to another,´ until he arrives in Venice. Now he has purchased a ticket on the newly refurbished Orient-Express-deeply familiar to him from his childhood, from the time when it was the perfect expression of the world it traversed, the world blasted apart by the war. The legendary train he boards has become a `dream vehicle´ that promises to turn back the clock. Yet looking out the window, he can plainly tell from the deformed postwar landscape that the present epoch cannot be escaped so easily. And this glaring contradiction plunges him into reflection on the old Europe and the new, the world into which he was born and what it has become: a banal and unconvincing imitation of its former self. And as his journey progresses-through the night and into the next day, through dramatic and erotic, hilarious and dreadful encounters with other passengers, through the labyrinth of his memory-he is forced to consider whether he too has not become a mere imitation of his former self, truer to the sharp image and impact of his American passport than to his unresolved European inner life. With all the rich musicality and sparkling irony, the dark brooding and light-filled wit that are his hallmark, Gregor von Rezzori gives us, in The Orient-Express, a piercing psychological study of a man who lives schizophrenically, with pride divided between Old World and New-neither of them whole, neither wholly sustaining. And beyond that, he gives us a profound commentary on a civilization: a once-sublime reality, now doomed to self-parody and extinction. ISBN: 0394573471.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Zeno's.
New York. 1992. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. Translated from the German by H. F. Broch De Rothermann. 181 pages. October 1992. hardcover. Front-of jacket art: Altered photograph by Barbara de Wilde. Photograph provided by Art Resource, New York. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. 0394573471. keywords: Literature Translated Germany. inventory # 17396. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The unnamed protagonist of this brilliantly written, powerfully affecting novel-by the critically acclaimed author of MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE and THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR-is Central European by birth but American since World War II: a man shaped in equal measure by the breeding and wealth he inherited and the cynicism he mastered on his own. Suddenly, without warning or farewell, he removes himself from the arena of his daily life: from his work, his wife, his home, all his commitments. An inarticulate impatience has impelled him from New York to San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Bangkok, `from one laminated plastic luxury hostelry to another,´ until he arrives in Venice. Now he has purchased a ticket on the newly refurbished Orient-Express-deeply familiar to him from his childhood, from the time when it was the perfect expression of the world it traversed, the world blasted apart by the war. The legendary train he boards has become a `dream vehicle´ that promises to turn back the clock. Yet looking out the window, he can plainly tell from the deformed postwar landscape that the present epoch cannot be escaped so easily. And this glaring contradiction plunges him into reflection on the old Europe and the new, the world into which he was born and what it has become: a banal and unconvincing imitation of its former self. And as his journey progresses-through the night and into the next day, through dramatic and erotic, hilarious and dreadful encounters with other passengers, through the labyrinth of his memory-he is forced to consider whether he too has not become a mere imitation of his former self, truer to the sharp image and impact of his American passport than to his unresolved European inner life. With all the rich musicality and sparkling irony, the dark brooding and light-filled wit that are his hallmark, Gregor von Rezzori gives us, in The Orient-Express, a piercing psychological study of a man who lives schizophrenically, with pride divided between Old World and New-neither of them whole, neither wholly sustaining. And beyond that, he gives us a profound commentary on a civilization: a once-sublime reality, now doomed to self-parody and extinction. ISBN: 0394573471.
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The Orient-Express (1992)
EN HC USISBN: 9780394573472 bzw. 0394573471, in Englisch, Knopf, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Good copy for reading, may have heavy page wear with writing textual notes highlighting or be an heavily used ex library copy with library markings, stickers or stamps. Dust jacket or accessories may not be included. Hardcover, American ed.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hippo Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Good copy for reading, may have heavy page wear with writing textual notes highlighting or be an heavily used ex library copy with library markings, stickers or stamps. Dust jacket or accessories may not be included. Hardcover, American ed.
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The Orient-Express (1992)
EN HC USISBN: 9780394573472 bzw. 0394573471, in Englisch, Knopf, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Owls Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
May be an ex-library copy with library markings or stickers, may have some highlighting and or textual notes. May no longer have dust jacket or accessories if applicable. Hardcover, American ed.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Owls Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
May be an ex-library copy with library markings or stickers, may have some highlighting and or textual notes. May no longer have dust jacket or accessories if applicable. Hardcover, American ed.
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