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"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
- Marlene Dietrich
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 116 pages
Edition: Revised
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN: 8090125727
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
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Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflicts, its mystery, its rat-catchers beauty have ever provided my poetic efforts with new inspiration and meaning, Leppin once wrote. True to his word, this, his most acclaimed novel, is set in Prague, a city of darkened walls and strange decay a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons which forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters. As Max Brod so aptly remarked:
"Leppin was the truly chosen bard of the painfully disappearing old Prague, its infamous sidestreets and debauched nights ... he was at once a servant of the devil and adorer of the Madonna."
About the Author:
Paul Leppin was born in Prague on November 27, 1878, the second son of a failed clockmaker and a former teacher. Forced by the economic difficulties of his family to forgo a university education, he entered the civil service upon graduation from gymnasium, working as an accountant for the Postal Service until his release due to reasons of physical disability. Beginning with the appearance of his first novel, The Doors of Life, in 1901, his poetry, prose, and criticism appeared regularly in Prague and Germany over the next thirty years. Leppin was also one of the few German writers to have close contacts with the Czech literary community, translating Czech poetry and writing articles on Czech literature and art for German periodicals. As a leading figure of a young generation of Prague German writers, calling themselves "Jung-Prag" and centered around the two literary periodicals he edited, Frühling and Wir, Leppin sought to combat the conservatism and provincialism of the city¹s established culture. Although many German writers eventually left Prague, Leppin could not live elsewhere and remained in the city after the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, writing novels, plays (performed at the Neues Deutsches Theatre), stories, and poems ‹ Prague always forming a strong influence. His contribution to the city¹s literatue and culture was recognized both in 1934, when he was awarded the Schiller Memorial Prize, and in 1938, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, when he received the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture Award for Writers. In 1939 he was detained by the Gestapo following the German occupation of the city and, after his release, suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He died in Prague of syphilis on April 10, 1945 largely unknown and forgotten.
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