Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent; the entire group is brought to the abyss of ruin, into which Wassermann has formerly not disdained to hurl...
Wassermann has a peculiarly contemporary appeal; yet Christian Wahnsschaffe and Eva Sorel, Friedrich and Pia Laudin are universal; Christian Wahnschaffe will always be lost in the wilderness of evil, searching with blind eyes for a remote Justice. Jacob Wassermann will not die with his enemy and victim, "fin de siecle...
...great work, after the first year, for Leo Strakosch, clever artist, to return to Vienna disguised as a Frenchman, ignite the discontent of land-poor landlords, disseminate the idea that with the Jews happiness had been exiled, overthrow the Government, get the ban repealed, regain his Christian fiancée and be hailed by the populace and mayor of Vienna as "beloved...
...literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen, Rosenstrauch, Butterfrass. A high dignitary's wife pulls his hair for exiling their...
...Author, a Christian, son of an old merchant family, a journalist and essayist of high and cosmopolitan reputation, received as his first royalty on The City Without Jews a bullet which killed him, fired in cold blood by a 20-year-old Nordic caller, who later said he was proud to have struck such a blow for Kultur...