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Baron Bagge

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-1976

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Additional authors
  1. Winston, Richard
  2. Winston, Clara
  3. Smith, Patti
Description
  1. ix, 75 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "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: "We were soon to have proof of his unreliability... But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so many men and horses, took place in order that something which could no longer happen within the realm of the living-because it was too late-could happen after life." 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"--
Series statement
  1. New Directions paperbook ; NDP1544
Uniform title
  1. Baron Bagge. English
  2. New Directions paperbook ; 1544.
Alternative title
  1. Baron Bagge.
Subject
  1. 1914-1918
  2. World War, 1914-1918 > Carpathian Mountains > Fiction
  3. Europe > Carpathian Mountains
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction.
  2. Historical fiction.
  3. Novellas.
Call number
  1. JFD 22-2283
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-1976, author.
Title
  1. 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.
Publisher
  1. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. New Directions paperbook ; NDP1544
  2. New Directions paperbook ; 1544.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological term
  1. 1914-1918
Added author
  1. Winston, Richard, translator.
  2. Winston, Clara, translator.
  3. Smith, Patti, writer of foreword.
LCCN
  1. 2022028061
ISBN
  1. 9780811234450 paperback
  2. 0811234452 paperback
Research call number
  1. JFD 22-2283
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