Between nine and nine
An insane nightmare, a crazy day: in Leo Perutz’s novel, the fugitive student Stanislaus Demba is sent hurtling through Vienna.
One evening, Stanislaus Demba learns that his beloved ...
Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz was born in Prague in 1882 and moved with his family to Vienna in 1899. In 1938 he emigrated to Tel Aviv. Perutz died in 1957 in Bad Ischl. His work has been translated into many languages. Most recent reprints by Zsolnay: St. Petri-Schnee (2007) and Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen ... (2011).
Little Apple
It is the end of the First World War, and a time of ghosts: former officer Georg Vittorin cannot forget the humiliations he endured at the hands of camp commander Seljukow.
Vienna ...
Saint Peter's Snow
After a serious head injury, Dr Friedrich Amberg, the local doctor of a remote Westphalian village in the 1930s, regains consciousness, unable to remember the events of the last five weeks. ...
moreMaster of the Day of Judgment
A mysterious series of deaths shocks Viennese society. In quick succession, the death of a young officer investigating, in turn, the death of his brother, is followed by that of an aging actor ...
moreThe Marquis de Bolibar
Winter 1812, the Spanish campaign: In the Andalusian town of La Bisbal, two German regiments supporting Napoleon are destroyed by the Spanish insurgents. Only Lieutenant von Jochberg survives the ...
moreThe Swedish Cavalier
"If German literature ever brought forth a brilliant stylist, a most wonderful and almost infallible stylist, surpassing Keller, Fontane, Kafka, and, in a way, even Goethe, then it must be Leo ...
moreAt Night under the Stone Bridge
The events at the court of Rudolf II, the magical atmosphere of the ghetto, the hustle and bustle in the narrow alleys, the low dives and the palaces of Prague, town of arts and sciences, demons ...
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