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On the marble cliffs

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On the marble cliffs
4.99 €
A book of exceptional significance for European literature—both as one of the finest examples of German-language modernism and as one of the most striking dystopias of the 20th century. A novel that fully reflects the author's critical stance toward the ideas of National Socialism. The strange state of Big Bay, seemingly existing outside of space and time, seemingly frozen in the realities of the late Middle Ages. A state that existed relatively prosperously until the cynical, clever, and cruel Head Forester came to power. He hates beauty more than anything else, for he sees it as the aesthetic expression of freedom. Now the course of events can no longer be stopped. The nameless narrator and his brother, sheltered on the marble cliffs, lead a resistance, attempting to resist the destruction of culture for its eventual rebirth...
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