My first wife / Jakob Wassermann ; translated by Michael Hoffman.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Penguin, 2012.Description: 275 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141389356 (hbk.)
- 0141389354 (hbk.)
- 833.912 23
- PT2647.A92 M9 2012
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | WAS | Available | 056883 |
"First published in German, within Joseph Kerkhovens dritte Existenz, by Queredo, Amsterdam, 1934"--T.p. verso.
This fictionalized account of Wasserman's first marriage to Julie Speyer of Vienna appeared as a novel within the novel Joseph Kerkhovens dritte Existenz, attributed to the character Alexander Herzog, and entitled Ganna oder die Wahnwelt.
Includes bibliographical references.
Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mould Ganna into what he wants. But no-one can control her troubling passions. As their marriage starts to self-destruct, Herzog will discover that Ganna has resources and determination of which he had no idea - and that he can never escape her.
Translated from the German.
