Word: schlessinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the peak and most furious pitch of his book is reached in the life of Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few...
The epilogue in which all ten come together in the desert has an eloquence that proves Robert Neumann, for all his irony and sometimes mannered facility, has wept by the waters of exile. His last symbol: though it is Schlessing who drives the fated bus, it is The Pale One...
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