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Cargando... My Marriage (New York Review Books Classics) (1934)por Jakob Wassermann
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Kafka’s conception of bureaucracy is made manifest in the figure of Ganna, a pedantic, delusional woman who is aroused by the smell of ink and the dotted lines found on legal documents. Wonderful character study of a man who is totally incapable of escaping the sphere of a woman lost, perpetually enamoured (or perhaps more accurately myopically intrigued) by a woman whose inner fire and clawing tenacity is inextinguishable. ( ) I usually love everything I read from NYRB Classics, but this one was a chore to finish with few rewards. In this book, a disguised memoir (and actually an excerpt from a trilogy), the author, against his better judgment, marries an unstable woman and pays for it for the rest of his life (literally). Unfortunately, Wasserman shows very little awareness of his role in his wife's behavior, and just as little interest in considering her motivations. Instead, we get an endless litany of injustices and indignities inflicted on him and no resolution. It's a relief when the book arbitrarily comes to an end. Pertenece a las series editorialesPremios
'If you don't take me, I'm going to jump into the lake; I swear I will. Either you're going to marry me, or I'll jump!' Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna- giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mould Ganna into what he wants. But no-one can control her troubling passions. As their marriage starts to self-destruct, Herzog will discover that Ganna has resources and determination of which he had no idea - and that he can never escape her. Posthumously published in 1934 and based on Wassermann's own ruinous marriage, My First Wifebears the unmistakable aura of true and bitter experience. It is a tragic masterpiece that unfolds in shocking detail. Now this story of rare intensity and drama is brought to English readers in a powerful new translation by Michael Hofmann. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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