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"Set during the heady, pre-World War II days of cabaret-era Germany, the novel centers on the unrequited affair between Sibylle - a stunning seductress who strings along five men at a time - and Friedrich, the callow, melancholic youth who pursues her obsessively. In a series of episodic flashbacks, Koeppen, with a cinematic vividness and intensity that anticipate Beat literature by nearly twenty years, tracks the doomed couple first to Zurich and then to the mysterious streets of Venice. Friedrich is a vibrant comic creation, "an amok runner of love," energetic but inept, modest yet exorbitant - the epitome of a talented, striving young artist.
Sibylle, glamorous and indifferent, remains as alluring a femme fatale as Salome."--Jacket.
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"IT WAS the first time Friedrich had ever crossed a border into another country."
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July 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate orphaned edition with work based on ISBN 9780393057188 |
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February 13, 2011 | Edited by Fusslkopp | merge authors |
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