The Story of My Baldness - Softcover

Jagt, Marek Van Der

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ISBN 10: 1590511956 ISBN 13: 9781590511954

Publisher: Other Press LLC, 2006

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A tale set in Vienna finds philosophy student Marek van der Jagt searching for l'amour fou while encountering a host of dysfunctional characters and becoming entangled in a web of shameful secrets. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Marek van der Jagt is a Viennese philosopher. His first book, The Story of My Baldness, was awarded the Anton Wachter Prize for a debut novel, until it was revealed that he had won the prize previously for Blue Mondays, written under the name of the best-selling international author Arnon Grunberg, his bitter public rival.

Dr. Todd Armstrong has academic experience on both sides of the Atlantic and a longstanding interest in the role of memory and concepts of guilt in the literature of the former Austro-Hungarian empire. He lives and works in the eastern Netherlands.

Synopsis:

The ingenious comic novel named one of the "best books of 2004" by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun. IN THE STORY OF MY BALDNESS, VIENNESE PHILOSOPHY student Marek van der Jagt tells the story of his quest for l'amour fou. Van der Jagt introduces a host of unforgettable characters and weaves a web of shameful secrets in this novel that uses Vienna the way Kafka used Prague - as the (strangely familiar) landscape where the narrator's obsessions are given free rein.

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