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The mythic Venusberg is the mountain in Germany where Tannhauser courted Venus, as painted by John Collier and celebrated by Wagner. But in this novel, it s also a city in an unnamed Baltic state, to which Powell s young hero, named Lushington, travels by ship in 1930 and falls in love with his own foreign Venus. This social comedy (think of the film The Grand Budapest Hotel ) is action packed with Nazis, countesses, hilarious misunderstandings, fatal accidents, and assassins. In the new foreword, Levi Stahl points out that Powell s second novel, written in his twenties, contains the seeds of his brilliant "Dance"" to the Music of Time.""…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The mythic Venusberg is the mountain in Germany where Tannhauser courted Venus, as painted by John Collier and celebrated by Wagner. But in this novel, it s also a city in an unnamed Baltic state, to which Powell s young hero, named Lushington, travels by ship in 1930 and falls in love with his own foreign Venus. This social comedy (think of the film The Grand Budapest Hotel ) is action packed with Nazis, countesses, hilarious misunderstandings, fatal accidents, and assassins. In the new foreword, Levi Stahl points out that Powell s second novel, written in his twenties, contains the seeds of his brilliant "Dance"" to the Music of Time.""
Autorenporträt
Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.