Married Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802111297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 486 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A rich and powerful novel, with the protagonists and the historical setting vividly depicted, this title holds it's place in the urban novel genre as a modern classic in a strong European tradition. Social decay in the external environment of the city is mirrored by despair, cruelty, depravity and disintegration within the marriage, narrated in rich and vivid prose.. This novel belongs to the urban novel genre, and is set in the Vienna of the 1920's. The tortuous and humiliating marriage of Gurdwell and Thea is evocatively set against the backdrop of a city which had witnessed the collapse of it's Empire in the 1st world war
Her unfaithfulness and cruelty to the well-meaning but helpless and masochistic writer clearly represent the relationship between Vienna and its Jews. From Publishers Weekly Written in Hebrew and published in Palestine in 1929, this is the single novel by this author, a poet who is presumed to have died at Auschwitz in 1944. Set in Vienna in the 1920s, the novel is a portrait of the disastrous marriage of one Rudolph Gurdweill, a poor Jewish intellectual, to a sadistic and anti-Semitic baroness. Vogel's eye for the telling ironic nuance misses nothing. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. The complex atmosphere of Viennese culture between the wars is conveyed marvelously in highly detailed descriptions of the daily lives of these characters. Countless cigarettes and cups of coffee, a
"I just finished reading this particular novel and am amazed by his ability to capture and convey the psychological" according to Maya. David Vogel is an incredible novelist and poet who, for rather interesting reasons, is not a well known writer. A reason Vogel has not attained the fame that he merits is that he wrote novels and stories about life in Europe (particularly Vienna), but he wrote them in Hebrew at a time in which Hebrew literature was being recruited for the nationalis. Eric Maroney said Hebrew Fiction Abroad. David Vogel was a Hebrew poet and novelist who died at the hands of the Nazis in 19Hebrew Fiction Abroad Eric Maroney David Vogel was a Hebrew poet and novelist who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1944. Married Life, his only long work in English translation, chronicles the world which Vogel inhabited, seedy Vienna between the World Wars, a place where marginalization was the norm. Married Life stands on its own legs, but it is all the more amazing when the reade. Hebrew Fiction Abroad Eric Maroney David Vogel was a Hebrew poet and novelist who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1944. Married Life, his only long work in English translation, chronicles the world which Vogel inhabited, seedy Vienna between the World Wars, a place where marginalization was the norm. Married Life stands on its own legs, but it is all the more amazing when the reade. . Married Life, his only long work in English translation, chronicles the world which Vogel inhabited, seedy Vienna between the World Wars, a place where marginalization was the norm. Married Life stands on its own legs, but it is all the more amazing when the reade. Excellent look at 1920's Vienna Author and poet David Vogel, who was presumed killed in 19Excellent look at 1920's Vienna Jill Meyer Author and poet David Vogel, who was presumed killed in 1944 at Auchwitz, wrote one book, "Married Life", published originally in 1929 in Hebrew, but then translated by Dalya Bilu and reprinted first in 1988 in English. I mention the dates because Vogel was writing contemporaneously about Vienna in the mid-1920's.David Vogel's story is about Vienna . Excellent look at 1920's Vienna Jill Meyer Author and poet David Vogel, who was presumed killed in 1944 at Auchwitz, wrote one book, "Married Life", published originally in 1929 in Hebrew, but then translated by Dalya Bilu and reprinted first in 1988 in English. I mention the dates because Vogel was writing contemporaneously about Vienna in the mid-1920's.David Vogel's story is about Vienna . at Auchwitz, wrote one book, "Married Life", published originally in 1929 in Hebrew, but then translated by Dalya Bilu and reprinted first in 1988 in English. I mention the dates because Vogel was writing contemporaneously about Vienna in the mid-1920's.David Vogel's story is about Vienna