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An ordinary young man and a hopeless romantic with a host of private obsessions, mostly about sex, Albert falls in love with Elena, a beautician from Sardinia, and accompanies her back to Sardinia, where things begin to fall apart. By the author of Lost. 12,500 first printing.
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The contemporary habit of laughing at pain may lead to this devastatingly critical short novel being called a comedy. Not that the trials of its grad-student protagonist, Albert, aren't ludicrous. A German enraptured with Italy, he fails ignominiously in his attempts to live in Rome, only to discover a bit of Italy--Sardinia, to be precise--back in Berlin: a harshly lit, sparsely patronized bar in the backroom of which a party of male regulars endlessly gambles. Serving them in back, and Albert and whomever else out front, is beautiful, noncommittal Elena, with whom Albert becomes laconically involved. The relationship persists despite competition for Elena, and when she, having saved enough to set up as a cosmetologist, goes home, Albert goes, too. But it doesn't work out because--and here is the dismal reality that Treichel's cool dissection of his feckless protagonist discloses--Albert doesn't know what love is. He just knows sex, and it isn't enough to build a life around. One closes the book wondering to what extent we aren't all Alberts. Ray Olson
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0375422617
- ISBN 13 9780375422614
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 2004. September 2004. Pantheon. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375422617. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. 249 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Christopher Sergio. keywords: Literature Germany Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From the author of LOST comes a funny acerbic novel - a love story of sorts - about a hopelessly romantic man with many private obsessions (mostly sexual) making his way in an absurd world. Albert is an ordinary young man, strangely ordinary He goes to the pool and pokes a hole in his newspaper so he can watch girls in their bathing suits. He sees female genitalia in great works of art, including the crucifix. He obsesses about his mother. He finds himself in ridiculous situations involving men dressed like women. But at the heart of this tale of a man at loose ends is Elena, the beautician from Sardinia with whom he falls in love, at least until he gets to know her. For a while she has a Persian boyfriend who is married, which bothers Albert, but not enough to break things off. It is only when he moves with her back to Sardinia, where she fulfills her dream of having her own salon, that things fall apart and Albert, eyes perhaps more widely opened at last, faces up to his future. In this stumbling, sympathetic hero, Hans-Ulrich Treichel has perfected the true postmodern hopeless romantic. The result is an original, deeply comic novel. inventory #28125. Seller Inventory # z28125
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