Baron Bagge

A rare sort of book; more like a romantic, snowbound fever dream... A story about love and valour, war and idiocy.

A rare sort of book; more like a romantic, snowbound fever dream... A story about love and valour, war and idiocy.

An utterly captivating account of the absurdity of war, the boundary between life and death, and love as a survival exercise

Accomplished and distinctive... blending military narratives, paranormal experiences and erotic obsessions

Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

Richard Winston (Translator)
Richard & Clara Winston , born in New York and educated at Brooklyn College, won several awards (the American Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize) for their translations of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, and Hermann Hesse.