Overview

Written in a highly unreliable first person narrative, Ernst Weiss' unsung masterwork is an account of a crime and its aftermath. The hero (or villain) is tried, sentenced and deported to a remote island. He seeks redemption from his crimes in science, but eventually learns that in spite of himself he is a man of feeling. Weiss' book came out of the same fertile literary ground between the wars that produced Musil's The Man Without Qualities (Picador, 1930) and, like many other modernist classics, it is a prescient description of a profoundly unsettled society.

ISBN-13

9780980033038

ISBN-10

0980033039

Weight

1.44 Pounds

Dimensions

5.90 x 1.36 x 7.01 In

List Price

$17.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

560 pages

Publisher

Archipelago

Published On

2010-01-29



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