Mars in Aries

di Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Autore)

Robert Dassanowsky (Traduttore)

John Barrett (Traduttore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2025

A haunting novel of love, fate and war from the Austrian master and acclaimed author of Baron Bagge and Count Luna ('A book so astonishing I immediately re-read it' – Patti Smith) ‘He’d had the feeling that he was expected there, on that day. But by whom?’ Vienna, 1939. Lieutenant Wallmoden is preparing to take part in a mysterious ‘military exercise’ when he meets the austerely beautiful Baroness Pistohlkors and her elusive circle of acquaintances. He promises to see her again – but then discovers his company has been mobilised for war. Marching across Europe, stumbling across the border between the living and the dead, one constant remains: he must keep his tryst with the Baroness, in this world or the next. Banned by the Nazis and almost lost, Mars in Aries is an erotically charged ghost story, a shocking account of the invasion of Poland, and a mesmeric exploration of time and fate. Translated by Robert Dassanowsky and John Barrett

• Autore: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
• Traduttore: Robert Dassanowsky, John Barrett
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Collana: Penguin Modern Classics
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 130 mm
• Peso: 159 gr.
• EAN: 9780241674468

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