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The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery
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The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery Hardback - 2000

by Paul West

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The Dry Danube, Paul West's nineteenth novel, is a uniquely daring, dazzling, bravura performance by an acknowledged master. The Dry Danube, presents Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One. Each of the book's four parts is a solid raving block of barbaric flourishes, free of paragraphing in its headlong rush of disgorged spleen. "I wanted to get at H. before the violence sets in," West remarked: "But most of all I wanted to get the motion of his mind, as seen by another." Hitler spews his rage over his blighted career and his desperate wooing of Treischnitt and Kolberhoff, "proud famous painters both." These "two men so important in my young life, yet so aloof from me," he tries to befriend, though "I would have had more success groveling before a statue of Frederick the Great or Charlemagne." ("These men do not so much control Art, they are Art. It makes you sick to think of it.") A risky venture, The Dry Danube stands a triumph -- baroque, chilling ("This was not the last the world would hear of me"), and scathingly humorous at the same instant.

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  • Title The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery
  • Author Paul West
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-04
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780811214322 / 081121432X
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 5.69 x 0.75 in (21.18 x 14.45 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Teacher-student relationships
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99088020
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2000, Page 422
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2000, Page 125
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/06/2000, Page 83

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