{"product_id":"count-luna-alexander-lernet-holenia","title":"Count Luna (Alexander Lernet-Holenia)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a concentration camp, Count Luna. What's more, he is convinced that Luna survived - and is out to get his revenge. So begins a wild, weird cat-and-mouse chase that takes him and his shadowy nemesis through windswept valleys, eerie houses and, eventually, Rome's catacombs, as an increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself: will Luna stop at nothing to exact his bloody vengeance? Crazed, raging and darkly comic, \u003ci\u003eCount Luna\u003c\/i\u003e is a reckoning with postwar guilt, and an irresistible tale of the uncanny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Like Kafka ... Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams ... with exquisitely imagined detail' \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlexander Lernet-Holenia\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé 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.\n\u003cb\u003eJane B. Greene\u003c\/b\u003e was a translator best known for her translations of \u003ci\u003eCount Luna\u003c\/i\u003e by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and \u003ci\u003eLetters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 160 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65797228134749,"sku":"K096393578","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9639357800001A.jpg?v=1788417508","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/count-luna-alexander-lernet-holenia","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}