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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...
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.
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Robert Menasse
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 teaching at the University of São Paulo, returning to Vienna in 1988, where he has since been based. Menasse has published some 18 books with Suhrkamp, which have been translated into more than 25 languages. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the German Book Prize in 2017 for Die Hauptstadt, and the European Book Prize in 2023 for Die Erweiterung.
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 Life Decision
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The World of Tomorrow
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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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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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Anyone Can Say »I«
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Don Juan de La Mancha or the Education of Lust
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Wings of Stone
Leo Singer, a philosophy student and son of Jewish parents who emigrated to Brazil during the Nazi era, returns to Vienna with his parents in the early 1960s.
He falls in love with...
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