Don Juan de la Mancha - Softcover

Robert Menasse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846880815 ISBN 13: 9781846880810

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Paints a portrait of the post-'68 generation and a society 'that cannot even sell a bottle of mineral water without viewing the goods from an erotic angle'.

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Review:

"A winning formula, redolent of the best kinds of existential novel, but updated for our times... a daring, engaging and entertaining study of sexual angst and the unforgiving alienation of the seducer."
-- TLS, 14th May

Synopsis:

'You can only be happy with your first woman or with your last,' announces Nathan's father, thus summarizing the seducer's dilemma. Nathan too is a seducer, albeit in different times. An editor for a Viennese newspaper, he maintains an emancipated marriage and an equally emancipated affair, paying frequent visits to his psychotherapist. Whereas Nathan's father sought happiness in women and Nathan's mother found unhappiness in men, Nathan intends to do everything quite differently. But what is he doing differently? Nothing. More entertaining and facetious than ever, Robert Menasse paints a vivid portrait of the post-'68 generation and a society 'that cannot even sell a bottle of mineral water without viewing the goods from an erotic angle'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846880815
• ISBN 13: 9781846880810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250