Mars in Aries
$22.14
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2026
Summary
Banned by the Nazis in 1941 and almost lost, this unflinching psychological novel about the German invasion of Poland is restored here in a superb revised translation.
Vienna, 1939. Count Wallmoden, an officer and veteran of the First World War, is preparing to take part in a mysterious ‘military exercise’. One evening, while off duty, he meets the austere and beautiful Baroness Pistohlkors, whose secretive nature and elusive circle of acquaintances suggest that things—including the ‘…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241674468 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241674468 |
| Author: | Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Robert Dassanowsky, John Barrett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protege of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.
Robert Dassanowsky (Translator)
Robert Dassanowsky (1965-2023) was Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an independent film producer, former President of the Austrian Studies Association, and author of Austrian Cinema (2005); New Austrian Film, ed. (2011); World Film Locations- Vienna, ed. (2012); Screening Transcendence- Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-1938 (2018). He was a member of the European Film Academy and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
John Barrett (Translator)
John S. Barrett (1935) is a translator, reviewer and retired cardiologist. He has translated Grete Weil, Heimito von Doderer, Christa Wolf and Hanna Johannsen, among others. His translations have won the American Literary Translators’ Association Award, the Koret Foundation Award and the Batchelder Award for Children’s Literature.
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