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Book 1994

Oedipus at Stalingrad

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Published
1994
  • Fiction
  • Upper class
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Germany, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Politics and government
  • Intellectual life

In pre-World War II Berlin, a man rises in society by dressing well and frequenting the right night clubs. Eventually he hits the jackpot by marrying the daughter of a munitions tycoon. A study of social climbing by the author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.