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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780980033038 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
F |
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WEI/GE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Weiss, Ernst |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
GEORG LETHAM : |
| Remainder of title |
Physician and Murderer |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
/Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Archipelago Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2010/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
560 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
First published in 1931 and now appearing for the first time in English, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a disquieting anatomy of a deviant mind in the tradition of Crime and Punishment. Letham, the treacherously unreliable narrator, is a depraved bacteriologist whose murder of his wife is, characteristically, both instinctual and premeditated. Convicted and exiled, he attempts to atone for his crimes through science, conceiving of the book we are reading as an empirical report on himself--whose ultimate purpose may be to substitute for a conscience. Yet Letham can neither understand nor master himself. His crimes are crimes of passion, and his passions remain more or less untouched by his reason--in fact they are constantly intruding on his "report," rigorous as it is intended to be. Both feverish and chilling, Georg Letham explores the limits of reason and the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity. Moving from an unnamed Central European city to arctic ice floes to a tropical island prison, this layered novel--with its often grotesquely comic tone and arresting images--invites us into the darkest chambers of the human psyche. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Fiction. |
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German Fiction. |
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Deportation. |
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Epidemiologists. |
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Weiss, Ernst 1882-1940 . |
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German physician and writer. |
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Rotenberg, Joel Translator. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rotenberg, Joel (tr.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |