Baron Bagge

Baron Bagge
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : 9780811234467
ISBN-13 : 0811234460
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Baron Bagge by : Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Download or read book Baron Bagge written by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at the beginning of WWI. The baron leads a desperate charge across a bridge to meet the Russian forces, following the orders of his mentally unstable commander: “We were soon to have proof of his unreliability… But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so many men and horses, took place in order that something which could no longer happen within the realm of the living—because it was too late—could happen after life.” And, swaying in a kind of fugue, the baron wanders off the bridge into unknown realms, where—mesmerized by Lernet-Holenia’s phosphorescent style—the reader joins his waking dream.


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