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Book SynopsisThis astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI
Trade Review"[For
I Was Jack Mortimer] Brilliant, extra stylish, excellently written and fearsomely gripping." -- The Times (UK)
"A rare and special pleasure—your
Baron Bagge is a masterpiece! It is positively magical the way dream and reality glide seamlessly into one another, creating a realm of visionary luminescence, a visual plenitude whose color derives from fever and coursing blood: in this flawless chef d’oeuvre, every word and every sentence rests lightly right where it belongs. Truly you wrote this unforgettable novella in a state of grace" -- Stefan Zweig, in a letter to Lernet-Holenia, from the Afterword
"But nowhere, as often as he has dealt with it, has this walk to ‘that unknown country from which no wanderer returns’ been traced with such visual power, vividness and dream fantasy as in
Baron Bagge, the most beautiful novel written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia." -- Hilde Spiel
"Fog-of-war tales are always abundant, but this one conjures a unique spell. An unsettling tale of war trauma, cleanly and uniquely told." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A pupil of Rilke, admired by Borges, Lernet-Holenia has a literary reputation as a sort of continental necromancer, a conductor of the underworldly and oneiric, uprooting tangled lineages and raising the closeted skeletons of guilty nations." -- Trevor Quirk - Bookforum
