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“hermann ungar”

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  • The Maimed

    by Hermann Ungar, Translated by Kevin Blahut ...
    The first English translation, The Maimed is set in Prague and relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a ... Read more

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  • Boys & Murderers

    Collected Short Fiction

    by Hermann Ungar, Translated by Isabel F. Cole ...
    Boys & Murderers is the first complete collection in English translation of Hermann Ungar’s novellas and stories. A writer whose unique talent and dark analyses of the human psyche were admired by Thomas Mann, who provides the preface, Ungar’s prose is often grotesque and comical, if not occasionally horrific. Much like his highly acclaimed novel The Maimed, he delves here into the depravities of ... Read more

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  • The Maimed

    by Hermann Ungar ...
    First English translation of a bleak 1928 novel by a forgotten Czech member of the generation of Doblin, Brecht and Werfel. It's a closely concentrated analysis of the frail psyche of obscure bank clerk Franz Polzer, a timid paranoid whose obsessive pursuit of order and control lead ironically to helpless explosions of irrationality and violence, and to his eventual undoing. Ungar's understated ... Read more

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  • The Class

    by Hermann Ungar ...
    Although The Class was written in 1927, its themes remain timeless: the struggle of a teacher to regain power over his unruly class and the personal trauma involved in keeping a dying marriage alive. Joseph Blau does not have a good life. His pupils are out of control, his enigmatic wife, Selma, is too attractive to other men, and his mother-in-law, Mathilda, is a loud, coarse embarrassment who ... Read more

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  • The Sleepwalkers

    by Hermann Broch ...
    Series series Vintage International
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    by Ernst Lothar ...
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  • Children and Fire

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  • Jakob von Gunten

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Christopher Middleton ...
    The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most ... Read more

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