{"product_id":"baron-bagge","title":"Baron Bagge","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Alexander Lernet-Holenia\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Richard and Clara Winston\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForeword by Patti Smith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Fog-of-war tales are always abundant, but this one conjures a unique spell. An unsettling tale of war trauma, cleanly and uniquely told.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliant, extra stylish, excellently written and fearsomely gripping.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe London Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at the beginning of WWI. The baron leads a desperate charge across a bridge to meet the Russian forces, following the orders of his mentally unstable commander:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“We were soon to have proof of his unreliability… But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so many men and horses, took place in order that something which could no longer happen within the realm of the living—because it was too late—could happen after life.” And, swaying in a kind of fugue, the baron wanders off the bridge into unknown realms, where—mesmerized by Lernet-Holenia’s phosphorescent style—the reader joins his waking dream.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e75 pages \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Directions, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally published in 1936\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.1 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780811234450\u003cbr\u003eFiction, Novella \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42803408076968,"sku":"9780811234450","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Baron-Bagge_Alexander-Lernet-Holenia_Richard-and-Clara-Winston_Patti-Smith.jpg?v=1665174350","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/baron-bagge","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}