Title: Oedipus at Stalingrad
First published: 1994
Description: In pre-World War II Berlin, a man rises in society by dressing well and frequenting the right night clubs. Eventually he hits the jackpot by marrying the daughter of a munitions tycoon. A study of social climbing by the author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.
Subjects: Fiction, Upper class, New York Times reviewed, Germany, fiction, Fiction, general, Politics and government, Intellectual life
Places: Germany
LC classification: PT2635.E98 O3713 1994