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Expulsion from Hell / Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
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During a school reunion, 25 years after graduating from highschool, Viktor confronts his former fellow pupils with their teachers’ Nazi past. The result is real row, and the reunion evening becomes an adventure trip back in time.
Born 1955 in Vienna, Viktor Abravanel comes from a family of Nazi victims. He became a historian; at a Spinoza congress, he is scheduled to give a talk entitled »Who was Spinoza’s teacher?«.
Baruch Spinoza’s teacher...
Born 1955 in Vienna, Viktor Abravanel comes from a family of Nazi victims. He became a historian; at a Spinoza congress, he is scheduled to give a talk entitled »Who was Spinoza’s teacher?«.
Baruch Spinoza’s teacher...
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During a school reunion, 25 years after graduating from highschool, Viktor confronts his former fellow pupils with their teachers’ Nazi past. The result is real row, and the reunion evening becomes an adventure trip back in time.
Born 1955 in Vienna, Viktor Abravanel comes from a family of Nazi victims. He became a historian; at a Spinoza congress, he is scheduled to give a talk entitled »Who was Spinoza’s teacher?«.
Baruch Spinoza’s teacher was rabbi Samuel Manasseh ben Israel. Born 1604 in Lisbon, the rabbi fled with his parents to Amsterdam as a child to escape the Inquisition. A reconstruction of the rabbi’s biography and Viktor’s reminiscences reveal amazing similarities.
Robert Menasse has written a great historical novel that moves nimbly between the different epochs. The fates of two Jews divided by four centuries – a novel about history as repetition and deceit.
2001, 496 pages
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Robert Menasse
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Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German philology, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and received his PhD in 1980 with a thesis on the character of the outsider in literature. Menasse then spent six years at the University of São Paulo, first as a lecturer for Austrian literature, then as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Literary Theory, where he gave lectures on philosophical and aesthetic theories, including on Hegel, Lukács, Benjamin and Adorno. Since his return from Brazil in 1988, Robert Menasse has been a writer and essayist based mainly in Vienna.
Robert Menasse
Author
Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German philology, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and...
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The World of Tomorrow
In The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig depicted the cosmopolitan Europe he had lived in prior to 1914. By the time he put his memories on paper, though, this world no longer existed, having been...
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Year of Publication: 2022
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Enlargement
2019 – membership negotiations between the European Union and the Western Balkan countries have come to a standstill; France and the Netherlands have put in a veto. This has toppled many a...
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Year of Publication: 2017
Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2017
The Capital
Brussels. A panorama of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. In his new novel, Robert Menasse spans a narrative arc between the times, the nations, the inevitable...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2009
Anyone Can Say »I«
History repeats itself. Memories as well. When did the post-war order come to an end? When did the wall fell? A young pair who spent their wedding night watching TV will remember November 9, 1989...
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Year of Publication: 2007
Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2007
Don Juan de La Mancha or the Education of Lust
»You can only be happy with your first woman or with your last« announces Nathan's father, thus summarizing the seducer's dilemma.
Nathan too is a seducer, albeit...
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