The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined.
But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.
Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel.
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“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
评分Stefan Zweig is a great story teller!
评分就像羅琳說的,貧窮會帶走一切不重要的,對於他和她,已經have nothing to lose瞭,反而隻有他們纔意識到在資本主義社會裏我們都是“隻能星期日休個假的機器”。與其像機器一樣毫無生機地苟且偷生,他們做的決定或許纔真正有血性、有生命。“窮兇惡極”是多麼傲慢、不耐心的籠統概括。
评分就像羅琳說的,貧窮會帶走一切不重要的,對於他和她,已經have nothing to lose瞭,反而隻有他們纔意識到在資本主義社會裏我們都是“隻能星期日休個假的機器”。與其像機器一樣毫無生機地苟且偷生,他們做的決定或許纔真正有血性、有生命。“窮兇惡極”是多麼傲慢、不耐心的籠統概括。
评分Stefan Zweig is a great story teller!
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