A curable romantic
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Joseph Skibell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9780715643006
Subjects: Fiction; Jewish men; Esperanto; History
Description: When Dr. Jakob Josef Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s, he happens to meet Sigmund Freud, has a series of affairs, is haunted by the ghost of his abandoned wife, and eventually ends up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. His Candide-like adventures illuminate a Europe moving between a new scientific age and age-old superstitions and beliefs.