Description
Masquerade of Geniuses, the third volume of the Austrian Trilogy, is considered by Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando to be his crowning work, bringing together all the central themes that accompanied him throughout his creative life: Eros triumphing over rationality and the order of the male world, with disconcerted men as victims and playthings in the hands of invincible female opponents; the reappearance of Greek and Byzantine mythology, surrealistically intertwined with contemporary banality and commedia dell’arte; the breaking down of boundaries between past and present, myth, illusion and reality; and the depiction of the world as an unstable place and a disordered collection of curiosities, at once a treasure and a rubbish heap, with human beings as victims of obsessions and metamorphoses of every kind. Like both previous novels, this one ends tragically, yet it is filled with the author’s exuberant, bizarre humour, amusing characters and unfailingly original ideas. The contents are in Czech.
Information
Language: Czech
Publication date: June 4, 2026
Manufacturer: Petr Januš
Genres: Books, Horrors, Fiction, Detective fiction and thrillers
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 476
ISBN/EAN: 9788088641216