Leo Perutz an author unfairly Lost (2) Leo Perutz I still here the presentation of other novels that Perutz I read and I heartily recommend.
In the historical genre, too,
The Judas Leonardo depicts Leonardo da Vinci, pressed by the Dominicans to finish his
Supper. He balks, however, unable to find where he is the right model for the character of Judas. And now that chance is on its way a German merchant come retrieve an old family debt from a Jewish merchant from Milan and will implement an inglorious ploy to get there. This novel, written after the war is said to be largely inspired by a reflection on the Holocaust.
With Frank Paul, he wrote in 1916 his second novel, originally conceived as a movie script.
The Miracle of mango .
Dr. Kircheisen, toxicologist Vienna, is one day introduced to Baron Voghera whose Indian servant has been the victim of a terrible snake smuggled into the large greenhouse in the field. The doctor is soon confronted with a mystery: Baron, renowned mountaineer seems very old to the exploits attributed to him, his fiancee speaks of Gretl, his future daughter-like a little girl as she appears to have a couple of decades but behaves like a child. Kircheisen began to investigate quietly. As often with Perutz, is a variation on a myth, in this case, that of original sin as stated at the outset the presence of the tree and the serpent.
"But sin, here, has humor, because it is played entirely" in miniature "in the tropical greenhouse of a Viennese Baron (JJPollet).
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