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Baron Bagge

Title
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.
Author
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-1976
Publication
  • New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Winston, Richard
  • Winston, Clara
  • Smith, Patti
Description
ix, 75 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
"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
New Directions paperbook ; NDP1544
Uniform Title
  • Baron Bagge. English
  • New Directions paperbook ; 1544.
Alternative Title
Baron Bagge.
Subject
  • 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Carpathian Mountains > Fiction
  • Europe > Carpathian Mountains
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Novellas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JFD 22-2283
ISBN
  • 9780811234450
  • 0811234452
LCCN
2022028061
OCLC
1304244652
Author
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-1976, author.
Title
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
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP1544
New Directions paperbook ; 1544.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1914-1918
Added Author
Winston, Richard, translator.
Winston, Clara, translator.
Smith, Patti, writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
JFD 22-2283
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