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Item Details
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FRANZISKA
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| By: |
Ernst Weiss, Anthea Bell (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1901285782 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781901285789 |
| Publisher: |
PUSHKIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2008 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
Following the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love in order to pursue a career as a concert pianist. She goes on from a humble home in a small Czech town, to Prague and a life that does not conform in any way to convention. It all ends in Berlin, with a bitter lesson learned: the fragility of life, and how debilitating love can be. |
| Synopsis: |
A tragic story of love, obsession and the power of musicFollowing the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love and follows a grimly determined path to achieve a career as a concert pianist. Her determination takes her from her humble home in a small Czech town to an unconventional life in Prague, and eventually draws to a destructive climax in pre-war Berlin. Franziska is a fascinating exploration of character, an alluring treatment of the power of music and of a woman's obsession. Ernst Weiss second novel was published in 1914 and was highly regarded by Franz Kafka, with whom Weiss was in regular contact.Ernst Weiss was born in 1884 in Brunn (now Brno) in Bohemia. He worked as a doctor and served in World War I. In 1938 Weiss emigrated to France. He committed suicide in 1940, the day the German troops entered Paris. Weiss novels show expressionistic and surrealist tendencies, often expressing violent perverted sexual impulses and marked by deep pessimism, owing something to Weiss' friend Franz Kafka. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pushkin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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