A curable romantic: a novel
When Dr. Jakob Josef Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s, he happens to meet Sigmund Freud, has a series of affairs, is haunted by the ghost of his abandoned wife, and eventually ends up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. His Candide-like adventures illuminate a Europe moving between a new scientif...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, NC
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell, Algonquin, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-56512-929-0), 608 pp., hb 26.95 (2013) (Blumenthal, David R.)
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Further subjects: | B
Vienna (Austria) Fiction
B Jewish men Fiction B Warsaw (Poland) Fiction B Esperanto History Fiction B Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) Fiction B Zamenhof, L. L (Ludwik Lazar) (1859-1917) Fiction |
| Summary: | When Dr. Jakob Josef Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s, he happens to meet Sigmund Freud, has a series of affairs, is haunted by the ghost of his abandoned wife, and eventually ends up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. His Candide-like adventures illuminate a Europe moving between a new scientific age and age-old superstitions and beliefs |
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| ISBN: | 1565129296 |