Research Catalog

Title

• The king of Corsica / Michael Kleeberg ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer.

Author

Kleeberg, Michael, 1959-

Publication

New York : Other Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Dollenmayer, David B.

Description

383 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "In The King of Corsica, Michael Kleeberg draws the portrait of a historical figure caught between the Baroque age and the Enlightenment, a master of illusion whose preoccupations are all too familiar to modern readers: money, love, and fame."--Jacket.
• "The son of an impoverished Westphalian aristocrat, Theodor von Neuhoff is both seductive and opportunistic. Sent to Versailles to be a page to Princess Palatine, he distinguishes himself as a brilliant and fluent conversationalist with a taste for ladies and for political intrigue. His missions take him to Holland, Italy, and Spain, where he discovers his true vocation as a double agent. Convinced that politics is only a game, in 1736 he has himself proclaimed king by the Corsicans rebelling against Genovese hegemony. As Theodor the First, he plans to transform "his island" into a prosperous kingdom. Yet, he gravely overestimates his own abilities as a monarch and goes down in history as the man who was king for a summer, dying a pauper in London."

Uniform Title

König von Korsika. English

Alternative Title

König von Korsika.

Subject

Courts and courtiers > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

ISBN

9781590512562 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007013931

OCLC

122425066

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library