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The Thüringer House

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By Panait Istrati
Published by Fario
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Published: May 10, 2011
Words: 45,133 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458103659


Short description

_The Thüringer House_ is the first of a cycle of novels written by the Romanian Panait Istrati in the early 1930's, shortly after his return, bitterly disillusioned, from a long stay in the Soviet Union. Adrien, servant in a bourgeois household headed by rich grain exporters, must reconcile his socialist ideals and his growing attraction to Madame Anna Thüringer, mistress of the house.

Extended description

_The Thüringer House_ is the first of a cycle of novels, "Life of Adrien Zograffi," written by the Romanian Panait Istrati in the early 1930's, shortly after his return, bitterly disillusioned, from a long stay in the Soviet Union. Adrien, servant in a bourgeois household headed by rich grain exporters, must reconcile his socialist ideals--put to the test during a strike in the grain-exporting port of Braila, on the Danube--and his growing attraction to Madame Anna Thüringer, the mistress of the house.

Panait Istrati
In early January 1922, a Romanian slits his own throat in a park off the promenade des Anglais, in Nice, France. He is saved by a passerby. In the Romanian's pocket is a letter, found by hospital personnel, addressed to French Nobel laureate Romain Rolland, who is so impressed he visits the would-be suicide in the hospital and encourages him to write. Less than a year later, Panait Istatri (1884-1935), a vagabond with no more than a primary school education, achieves .. (Read more)

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romania, danube, grain elevators, braila

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