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Af John Lehmann

1. udgave fra 1938 på forlaget The Cresset Press, London

pris: 1260 kr – stand: ★★★★

Rarely seen 1st Edition. 256 pp., cloth boards with blue title field with gold lettering on spine. Jacket with small piece missing (probably price clipped), ownership signature on front flyleaf. John Lehmann was one of the most distinguished British men of letters of the mid-twentieth century, renowned as a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and biographer. His novel 'Evil was Abroad’ is set in Vienna and largely based on the life of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Lehmann's main character is trying to become a serious writer through researching a poet whose life parallels the major events in Rilke's life. The novel focuses on the themes of literature, sexuality and politics. John Lehmann went to Vienna to write, attracted by ‘Red Vienna’s’ political and social experiment and by its young men. "Between 1932 and 1938 a number of writers from Britain visited Vienna [… ] I put Mr. Lehmann first, because I found his novel the most interesting"... . - The Spectator Archive, 1938. [hl0856]