Overview

Erich von Langheim, a Munich gallery owner of aristocratic antecedents has fled from dealing with the infidelity of his younger wife and gallery partner Karin to an out-of-the-way rural spot for a period of reflection and emotional recuperation. In this countryside the novel also turns into a reflection on country life versus existence in the city. Not that country life -- in all its coarseness, ignorance, and farmer's shrewdness in the exploiting of tourism -- is here idylicized. Yet the Langheim "prism" affords the uniting of the narrative's several themes -- midlife crisis, the "natural" versus the "artificial" life, instantly entwined and deepened as they are with the novel's most important theme: erotic obsession and art.
ISBN-13

9780929497839

ISBN-10

092949783X

Weight

0.45 Pounds

Dimensions

5.75 x 0.50 x 8.75 In

List Price

$12.50

Format

Paperback

Pages

131 pages

Publisher

Ariadne Pr

Published On

1994-03-01


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