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.