Lucifer Unemployed Tapa blanda - 1990

Northwestern University Press, 1990-02-01. paperback. Very Good. 96x9x144. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good; very minor wear to edges of wraps; previous owner book plate on front paste-down, previous owner name at top edge of title page. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Paperback / softback. New. In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe. The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a mission: what impact can a devil have in a godless time? What is his sorcery in a society far more diablical than the devil himself? Too idealistic for a world full of modern cruelties, the unemployable Lucifer finally finds the only means of guaranteed immortality. In "The Eternally Wandering Jew," steady Jewish conversion to Christianity results in Nathan the Talmudist reigning as Pope Urban IX. The hilarious satire on power, "Kings in Exile," unfolds with the dethroned monarchs of Europe meeting to… Leer más

Northwestern Univ Pr, 1990. Paperback. New. translated edition. 123 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.

Northwestern University Press, 1990-02-01. Translated. paperback. Used: Good.

Northwestern University Press, 1990-02-01. Translated. paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Northwestern University Press, 1990-02-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!