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From: "Pamela Sewell Saur" <[log in to unmask]>
New from Academica Press:
Ernst Weiss. Life, Works and Legacy of a Czech
Literary Master and Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882-1940
by Pamela S. Saur.
Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are
reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the
Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). Weiss
was born in Moravia and studied medicine, in Vienna and Prague. One of
many of Jewish exile writers who fled the Nazi regime, Weiss committed
suicide in Paris when German troops entered the city in the summer of
1940. Weiss wrote one of the few novels about Adolf Hitler during the
Fuehrer´s life.
This work, using an eye doctor as narrator, was an experimental tour de
force. His next novel, the Expressionist masterpiece, Nahar, was about
a female tiger who had once been human. His fiction merges influences
of Expressionism, his own medical background, literary interactions
with his friends Joseph Roth, Joseph Brod and Franz Kafka, as well as a
Freudian emphasis on human drives, obsessions and compulsions. This is
the first comprehensive assessment in English of the life and legacy of
an important, underrated voice from mid twentieth century Central
Europe.
Weiss had a wide body of friends and colleagues including Arthur
Schnitzler and Karl Kraus as well as Kafka, Brod and Roth. He was a
pioneer in modern travel writing undertaken when he was a ship´s doctor
in the Pacific. His work is only now coming under serious
reconsideration. This monograph includes a robust bibliography and
index as well as samples of the author´s oeuvre.
ISBN: 978-1-93314672-0 / 1933146-72-9
Price: $79.95
Pages: 292
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