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The Aristocrat (Extraordinary Classics)

The Aristocrat (Extraordinary Classics)

by Martin Chalmers (Translator), Martin Chalmers (Translator), Ernst Weiß (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $19.17
Synopsis

The time: the summer of 1913. The place: House Onderkuhle, an exclusive boarding school for the sons of the aristocracy in eastern Belgium. The old order may be crumbling but at Onderkuhle training for a life of command goes unchallenged. The most important lessons: fencing, riding and, above all, the forms of etiquette - ?the refinements of aristocratic intercourse?. Bo?tius von Orlam?nde distinguishes himself at all of these. He subdues his doubts by undertaking ever more extreme physical tests, climaxing in the breaking-in of the stallion Cyrus. On the night the school burns down, Bo?tius displays cowardice and forfeits his nobility. Immediately recognised as a masterpiece on its first publication in 1928, The Aristocrat dissects the collapse of a world of rigid hierarchy and exposes the murderous perversity of those who persist in living by the old rules.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 210
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Oct 1994
ISBN 10: 1852422629
ISBN 13: 9781852422622

Media Reviews
?...that produces an iridescent beauty, a sheen of opal and mother of pearl in his works, which possesses the greatest attraction for me personally... In short we have in Weiss an important artist - probably the strongest talent in our recent prose? Thomas Mann (1924) ?To be interesting is certainly the first and perhaps the only demand to be made of a story teller, the criterion of his talent, much more than with a poet or a dramatist. For if one is to listen to someone, that is, listen for a long time, then he just has to be interesting - admittedly a mysterious and hardly definable characteristic, but you possess this secret and the undefinable something, and it makes you - shall I say: great?? Thomas Mann (1937)
Author Bio
Born in Moravia in 1882, Ernst Weiss grew up in Vienna where he trained as a doctor. Following the First World War, he settled in Berlin and devoted himself to writing. His work was admired by many leading figures of the period including Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Joseph Roth. When Hitler came to power he went into exile in Paris. He died on May 15th 1940, one day after German troops entered Paris, as a result of a suicide attempt. This is the first English translation of an author whom Thomas Mann called the most gifted German writer of his generation.