Summary
Leo Perutz: Night under the stone bridge
Night under the stone bridge is one of the most beautiful and brilliant works of world literature of the 20th century; it is a novel, a book of short stories, and a dramatic text. Spectacular, endlessly witty dialogues; perfectly formed stories in which every sentence is like a polished diamond; a novelistic composition reminiscent of a tapestry made of the finest cobwebs which, illuminated and observed only from a certain angle, gives a magnificent and unforgettable image of sublimity and nothingness, wealth and pain, the immutability and fragmentation of the human soul and human destiny. Refined for almost a quarter of a century and published in 1953, this novel, a few decades before the concept of postmodernism crystallized for the first time in the minds of connoisseurs, was already written - as a representative sample on which students of literature today should learn what and how the postmodern novel structure is...
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