Severin's Journey Into the Dark: A Prague Ghost Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788090125728)

Leppin once wrote: "Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflicts, its mystery, its ratcatcher's beauty have ever provided my poetic efforts with new inspiration and meaning." It is this city of darkened walls and strange decay that forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters as he enters a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in in the occult, and denizens of decadent salons. First published in 1914, Leppin seeks to unlock the mysterious erotic nature of his native city buried deep in the subconscious of its inhabitants. His depiction of this world, in a Prague straddling the border between the ancient and the modern, has brought Severin's Journey into the Dark deserved international acclaim. As Max Brod so aptly remarked: "Leppin was the truly chosen bard of the painfully disappearing old Prague..."

Author: Paul Leppin
ISBN-10: 8090125727
ISBN-13: 9788090125728
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1993
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.92h x 5.08w x 0.35d