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A man in love : a novel
- Title
- A man in love : a novel / Martin Walser ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer.
- Author
- Walser, Martin, 1927-2023
- Publication
- New York : Arcade Publishing, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1856 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dollenmayer, David B.
- Description
- 283 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "For readers of Colm Toibin's The Master and Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a wave of self-inflicted deaths across Europe. Now seventy-three, sought after and busy with scientific pursuits and responsibilities to the Grand Duke, he has fallen in love with a nineteen-year-old, Ulrike von Levetzov. Infatuated, at the spa in Marienbad, he seeks her out. They exchange glances, witty words. In the social swirl, they find each other. On the promenade, they parade together arm in arm. Time spent away from her is sleepless, and when they kiss, it is in the 'Goethian' way, from his books: a matter of souls, not mouths or lips. And yet, his years fail him. At an afternoon tea party, a younger man tries to seduce her. At a costume ball, he collapses. When he proposes nonetheless, Ulrike and her mother are already preparing to leave. Caught in a storm of emotion and torn between despair and unwillingness to give up hope, he begins an elegy in his coach as he pursues her: 'The Marienbad Elegy,' one of his last great works"--
- Uniform Title
- Liebender Mann. English
- Alternative Title
- Liebender Mann.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Romance fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1856
- ISBN
- 9781628728736
- 1628728736
- 9781628728743 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019006902
- OCLC
- 1089840270
- Author
- Walser, Martin, 1927-2023, author.
- Title
- A man in love : a novel / Martin Walser ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer.
- Publisher
- New York : Arcade Publishing, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First English-language edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Added Author
- Dollenmayer, David B., translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Walser, Martin, 1927- author. Man in love First English-language edition. New York : Arcade Publishing, [2019] 9781628728743 (DLC) 2019011255
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1856