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Odon Von Horvath

The Eternal Philistine

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At the World's Fair in Paris I once lost my late husband and, just then, an elegant gentleman accosted me. As I look at him, he opens up his overcoat and hasn't got anything on underneath. I only mention this in passing. This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe's descent into Fascism.It tells the tale of a failed used car salesman who wants to live the high life, and so decides to travel by train from Munich to Barcelona to attend the World's Fair-in hopes of meeting a beautiful, rich woman who will provide for his every whim.It's a hi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Dorvel, Benjamin (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-935554-74-5
  • EAN: 9781935554745
  • Produktnummer: 15728375
  • Verlag: Melville House
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'949 KB

Über den Autor


ÖDÖN VON HORVÁTH (1901-1939) was born near Trieste, the son of a Hungarian diplomat who moved the family constantly. Horváth would subsequently say of himself, I am a mélange of Old Austria; Hungarian, Croat, Czech, German; alas, nothing Se- mitic. Although his first language was Hungarian, he went to high school in Vienna and college in Munich, and began writing plays in German. Leaving school, he settled in Berlin, where in 1931 his play Italian Night debuted to rave reviews-except from the Nazi press, which reviled him. His next play, Tales from the Vienna Woods, starring Peter Lorre, drew an even stronger, equally divided re- sponse. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he relocated to Vienna, but on the day of the Anschluss-March 13, 1938-he fled to Budapest. From there, he soon moved to Paris, but on June 1, 1938, he was killed in a freak accident when, caught in a rainstorm coming out of a theater on the Champs-Élysées, he took shelter under a tree that was hit by lightning; von Horváth was struck by a falling tree limb and killed instantly. He was 36 years old and had published 21 plays and three novels-The Age of the Fish, A Child of Our Time, and The Eternal Philistine.

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