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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bWEI/GE
100			_aWeiss, Ernst
245			_aGEORG LETHAM : _bPhysician and Murderer _c/Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.
250			_a1
260			_aNew York _bArchipelago Books _c2010/01/01
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500			_aFirst 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			_aFiction.
650			_aGerman Fiction.
650			_aDeportation.
650			_aEpidemiologists.
650			_a Weiss, Ernst 1882-1940 .
650			_aGerman physician and writer.
650			_a Rotenberg, Joel Translator.
700			_a Rotenberg, Joel (tr.)
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