9781590171202-1590171209-The Lord Chandos Letter

The Lord Chandos Letter

ISBN-13: 9781590171202
ISBN-10: 1590171209
Edition: Main
Author: John Banville, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joel Rotenberg
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback 152 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781590171202
ISBN-10: 1590171209
Edition: Main
Author: John Banville, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joel Rotenberg
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback 152 pages

Summary

The Lord Chandos Letter (ISBN-13: 9781590171202 and ISBN-10: 1590171209), written by authors John Banville, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joel Rotenberg, was published by NYRB Classics in 2005. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Lord Chandos Letter (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.32.

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Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.

The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

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