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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 Judith Katz. She is to be his muse in his attempt to force the world into a philosophical system one last time. Judith's death reveals the secret of life to him — but is she really dead? Life goes on — beyond what is permitted.
In Die Zeit, critic Erich Hackl wrote: »A book that will...
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 Judith Katz. She is to be his muse in his attempt to force the world into a philosophical system one last time. Judith's death reveals the secret of life to him — but is she really dead? Life goes on — beyond what is permitted.
In Die Zeit, critic Erich Hackl wrote: »A book that will change the world? Influence it? In any case, it will calm it down. Robert Menasse's novel describes how Leo Singer's work, which is supposed to shake our existence, never comes to fruition. And he does so in such an entertaining way that one wishes as many readers as possible would read this successful book about a failed book: 1 x Menasse, Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt, please quickly, please right away!«
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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 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 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
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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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Expulsion from Hell
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