Count Luna
$25.14
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria’s most celebrated writers
Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky’s board of directors sends his mysterious neighbour Count Luna to a concentration camp on trumped-up charges in order to seize his land, Jessiersky can’t shake the feeling that Count Luna blames…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241649541 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241649544 |
| Author: | Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Jane B. Greene |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A book so astonishing that I immediately re-read it, fearful it might disappear – Patti Smith
Daunting panache, fast-moving, cleverly convoluted, terrific * Irish Times *
In Count Luna, an industrialist inadvertently responsible for sending a man to a concentration camp feels certain that the fellow survived the war and is mounting a shadowy campaign of revenge. Like Kafka […] Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams into the texture of what happens next with exquisitely imagined detail * Chicago Tribune *
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protege of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.
Jane B. Greene (Translator)
Jane B. Greene was a translator best known for her translations of Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910.
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