“The pigeons on the grass alas.” – Gertrude Stein (Epigraph referenced in the novel) Chapter 1: A Post-War City in Fragments The novel opens in an unnamed German […]
German literature
Death in Rome
“Rome is the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” […]
German literature
The Black Obelisk
“The dead are always wrong. They should have stayed alive.” Chapter 1: Post-War Germany Ludwig Bodmer, a young veteran of World War I, works at a monument company […]
American literature
The Sun Also Rises
“You are all a lost generation.”— Gertrude Stein (epigraph) Chapter 1: Paris and Jake Barnes The novel opens with Jake Barnes, an American expatriate and journalist living in […]