Baron Bagge
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-19762025
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Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace. 'Baron Bagge' is both a perfect ghost story and a perfect love story - a tale to which the word 'haunting' can be applied in every possible permutation. This edition includes a new introduction, and an exchange between Lernet-Holenia and Stefan Zweig.
Main title:
Baron Bagge / Alexander Lernet-Holenia.
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Edition:
New edition / foreword by Patti Smith ; translated by Richard Winston, Clara Winston.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2025.
Collation:
128 pages ; 19 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780241752449 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
833.912
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
6013437