Fiction. Translation. Hermann Ungar (1893-1929) was born to a
prominent Jewish family in Boskovice, Moravia and studied in Berlin
and Prague where he later lived. THE MAIMED is a novel set in
Prague that relates the story of a neurotic, socially inept bank
clerk who is eventually forced to have sexual relations with his
widowed landlady. He must also witness the physical and mental
deterioration of a friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease.
Part psychological farce, THE MAIMED is a dark, ironic tale of
chaos overtaking one's meticulously ordered life. This is the first
time Hermann Ungar's work has appeared in English. In his time,
Ungar was praised by Thomas Mann who commented about THE MAIMED ."a
sexual hell, full of filth, crime and the deepest melancholy--a
monomaniacal digression of an inwardly pure artistry...."
Translated from the German by Kevin Blahut. Illustrated by Pavel
Rut.
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