Alexander Lernet-Holenia Libros

En octubre de 1918 un joven oficial del ejército imperial, el austriaco Herbert Menis, se reincorpora a filas tras un breve periodo de convalecencia. A su llegada a Belgrado, donde ha sido destinado, se enamora de Resa Lang, una joven dama de la corte de María Antonia de Austria, y decide conquistarla. -- Su romance se desarrollará en un ambiente lleno de contrastes: los fastos de la corte y los regimientos austrohúngaros frente a la crudeza y las privaciones de la guerra; la unidad de los oficiales frente a las disensiones en la tropa. Los protagonistas de la historia parecen estar fuera del tiempo, siguiendo unas tradiciones y un modo de vida que eran característicos del Imperio pero que ellos intuyen que están a punto de desaparecer. Publicada en 1934, El estandarte está considerada como una de las mejores novelas que se han escrito sobre el fin del Imperio Austrohúngaro. Novela de amor y aventuras, crónica de costumbres, este libro retrata como pocos el caos y el vacío generado por la caída y desintegración del Imperio.

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 - Alexander Lernet-Holenia's finest work - is a jewel that glimmers with a wintry, exquisite light. A meditation on duty and desire, it 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.

At once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed

One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end.A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered ... Twice filmed, I Was Jack Mortimer is a darkly captivating and twisting tale of misappropriated identity.

'Love does not need any comforting. It does not even need requiting. All it needs is itself.' Florence, 1502. Marshal Louis de La Trémouille's small army has stopped off en route to Naples, to buy objects d'art for King Louis XII of France. Naturally, Leonardo da Vinci's workshop is on the shopping list; and during their visit to his house, the young nobleman de Bougainville chances upon the not-quite-finished Mona Lisa. He promptly, utterly and hopelessly falls in love with the woman in the painting, and is determined to find her - despite rumours that she has long ago died. A visit to an empty tomb, assault upon an Italian nobleman's mansion, duel and execution later, the secret of la Gioconda's smile is (possibly) revealed. An entertaining story, told with style - about love, life, art, and the Quixotic things that a man will do to realise his dream.

Alexander Lernet-Holenias Roman gleicht einem Uhrwerk, dessen Räder sich mit einer Präzision ohnegleichen auf das Ende zu bewegen, die Zeit messend und ihr gleichzeitig ausgeliefert. Die Zeit, das sind die Jahre zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen, in denen Philip Branis seinen Nebenbuhler erschlägt, einen Bastard aufzieht und vergeblich versucht, den Tod seiner eifersüchtig geliebten Frau zu überwinden. Die Zeit, das sind die Jahre des heraufdämmernden Nationalsozialismus mit dem Geruch nach noch nicht geflossenem Blut, mit dem Warten auf den Sprung lauernder Bestien und mit tragisch-lächerlichen Versuchen, diese ganze unwirkliche, brüchige, unerträgliche Realität abzuschütteln.