Aladdin's Problem (The Eridanos Library)

Junger, Ernst

ISBN 10: 0941419584 / ISBN 13: 9780941419581

Published by Marsilio Pub, 1992

About this Item

136pp. + colophon. 12mo, Navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Entirely clean and sharp; DJ front laminant bubbled a bit at head, crisp and clean otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. First English edition, now out of print in and increasingly scarce in hardcover.

Seller Inventory # 503423

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aladdin's Problem (The Eridanos Library)
• Publisher: Marsilio Pub
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941419584
• ISBN 13: 9780941419581
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Friedrich Baroh, an East German soldier, defects to the West, where he obtains a college degree and decides to build Terrestra, an international, nondenominational necropolis, in a remote area of Turkey

Reviews

German writer Jiinger (1895- ) receives an overdue introduction to English-language readers with this elegant allegorical novel. Frederick Baroh, descended from a once-aristoerotic family, serves in a rifle regiment of the People's Army garrisoned in his old hometown in Silesia before deserting to the West. (Jilnger, not incidentally, fought in both world wars, and as a captain took part in the occupation of France; in 1939, however, he had written a widely read anti-Nazi novel.) Once in the West, Baroh joins his uncle's funeral business and then develops an enormously lucrative enterprise-a vast, world-famous necropoIis. Lucid sentences and a finely tuned plot balance a rigorous agenda concerned with nothing less than the mysteries and paradoxes of material existence. An articulate afterword by Martin Meyer examines the philosophical and literary underpinnings of Jilnger's work.
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