Két obeliszk

A love story whose main and minor characters can be identified with real people, and whose events mostly happened. In autumn 1913 the Viennese journalist Karl K. meets the baroness Sidonie N. They fall in love and, after brief meetings, spend happy days in June 1914 at her home in Janovice. Before the war even breaks out the planned marriage falls apart, and she marries a young count instead. In the summer of 1934 they find each other again, now in Switzerland, which seems a peaceful refuge at the heart of a Europe drifting towards another war. Both are twenty years older, and Karl K. already carries an illness. Small, barely visible fictions shift the facts from their places and bring out how ghostly the historical background is. Woodcuts by Christian Thanhäuser show the landscapes of the book.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria, Czechia, Switzerland, 1913–1934

First published

2018 by Kalligram

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789634680581 (original)