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" ... Professor Victor Jakob, is a sad and aging German theoretical physicist ... who is facing the imminent defeat of his country in the last months of the Great War, and reflects on the end of the era in which he has lived and worked."
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Contemplative, grave, character-led and nostalgic.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Russell McCormmach
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Avon, Harvard University Press, Avon Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674624610
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