Ernst Weiss: Life, Works and Legacy of a Czech by Pamela S. Saur HARDBACK

Academica Press

Ernst WeissLife, Works and Legacy of a Czech Literary Master and Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882 - 1940\nAuthor(s): Pamela S. Saur\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academica Press, United States\nImprint: Academica Press\nISBN-13: 9781933146720, 978-1933146720\nSynopsis\nExperiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss [tel]. Weiss was born in Moravia and studied medicine, in Vienna and Prague. One of many of Jewish exile writers who fled the Nazi regime, Weiss committed suicide in Paris when German troops entered the city in the Summer of 1940. Weiss wrote one of the few novels about Adolf Hitler during the Fuehrer's life. This work, using an eye doctor as narrator, was an experimental tour de force. His next novel, the \""Expressionist\"" masterpiece, Nahar, was about a female tiger who had once been human. His fiction merges influences of \""Expressionism\"", hi.