Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss

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Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss

Written in a highly unreliable first person narrative, Ernst Weiss' unsung masterwork is an account of a crime and its aftermath. The hero (or villain) is tried, sentenced and deported to a remote island. He seeks redemption from his crimes in science, but eventually learns that in spite of himself he is a man of feeling. Weiss' book came out of the same fertile literary ground between the wars that produced Musil's The Man Without Qualities (Picador, 1930) and, like many other modernist classics, it is a prescient description of a profoundly unsettled society.

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ISBN 13 9780980033038
ISBN 10 0980033039
Title Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
Author Ernst Weiss
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Archipelago Books
Year published 2010-01-29
Number of pages 560
Prizes Commended for Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) 2011
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.