by Leo Perutz · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253053507
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«La nuit sous le pont de pierre» is the novel by Leo Perutz, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (246 pages, in French).
Seventeenth-century Prague is recreated in fourteen vignettes blending history, legend, and Kabbalistic tradition. Among courtiers, jesters, alchemists, and astrologers, the dreamed encounters of the beautiful Esther with the emperor stand out. The city remains caught between reality and the supernatural in a mosaic of interwoven tales.
The original German title is «Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke. Ein Roman aus dem alten Prag», first published in 1953; the French translation is by Jean-Claude Capèle.
For readers of historical and fantasy fiction with an interest in baroque Prague, Judaism, and Central European magical realism.
Leopold Perutz was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. Born in Prague, he lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine.
