Don Juan de la Mancha by Robert Menasse

Don Juan de la Mancha by Robert Menasse

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Paints a portrait of the post-'68 generation and a society 'that cannot even sell a bottle of mineral water without viewing the goods from an erotic angle'.

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Don Juan de la Mancha by Robert Menasse

'You can only be happy with your first woman or with your last,' announces Nathan's father, thus summarizing the seducer's dilemma. Nathan too is a seducer, albeit in different times. An editor for a Viennese newspaper, he maintains an emancipated marriage and an equally emancipated affair, paying frequent visits to his psychotherapist. Whereas Nathan's father sought happiness in women and Nathan's mother found unhappiness in men, Nathan intends to do everything quite differently. But what is he doing differently? Nothing. More entertaining and facetious than ever, Robert Menasse paints a vivid portrait of the post-'68 generation and a society 'that cannot even sell a bottle of mineral water without viewing the goods from an erotic angle'.
'David Bryer's translation does the rudely mordant narrator proud, while Nathan's erotic odyssey reflects a generation as much as a single libido' The Independent
Translated in more than twenty countries, Robert Menasse is one of the leading voices in Austrian literature. Major Awards 1990 Heimito von Doderer Prize; 1994 Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize; 1998 Osterreichischer Staatspreis fur Kulturpublizistik; 2002 Joseph Breitbach Prize; 2002 Friedrich Holderlin Prize; 2002 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize; 2002 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize; 2003 Erich Fried Prize.
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ISBN 13 9781846880810
ISBN 10 1846880815
Titre Don Juan de la Mancha
Auteur Robert Menasse
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Alma Books Ltd
Année de publication 2009-02-01
Nombre de pages 250
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