Blaugast: A Novel of Decline (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788086264592)

Blaugast is a tale of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiraling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything at the hands of the evil prostitute Wanda, he seeks redemption in a Prague that has become sybaritic and uncaring - a city in which he has become an outcast. Flashbacks to his past, hallucinatory revelations of the meaning of events long forgotten, point to the seeds of his eventual downfall.

Leppin's final novel, which he never saw published (the manuscript languished for decades after his death in the archives in Prague), Blaugast is an indictment of the despotic and vulgar, an exploration of the sadistic tendencies found among the "moral" and "respectable." Max Brod's depiction of Leppin as "a poet of eternal disillusionment, at once a servant of the Devil and an adorer of the Madonna" nowhere rings more true than here.

Author: Cynthia Klima, Paul Leppin
ISBN-10: 8086264599
ISBN-13: 9788086264592
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2022
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.41d