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The Diaries, 1898-1902
by Alma Mahler-Werfel
ISBN: 0801436540
ISBN-13: 9780801436543
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In these edited diaries of Alma Mahler, recorded during her late teens and early 20s, intimate details of encounters with her numerous male admirers-including Walter Gropius, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Franz Mahler, and Alexander Zemlinsky-reveal the complexity of her erotic life and present a provocative portrait of turn-of-the-century Vienna.
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"Beaumont's selections reveal a young woman with an iron will (she pulled her own molar) who nevertheless craved a submissive role. If her genius husband brought Western music to the edge of modernism, Alma seems balanced on the brink of the modern age-a combination of proto-feminist and femme fatale."
-- New Yorker
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 494
Publisher's Notes
The manuscript of Alma Mahler's Diaries, a pile of old exercise books, lay unread and seemingly illegible in the library of an American university. In search of the truth about Alma and Alexander Zemlinsky, Antony Beaumont read them - and found what he was looking for. But he found far more: the authentic saga of one of the century's most charismatic personalities. The Diaries depict in intimate detail the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Gustav Klimt, they break off shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Having come to grips with Alma's handwriting, Beaumont and his co-editor for the German edition, Susanne Rode-Breymann, added meticulously researched commentaries and annotations.
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The Diaries, 1898-1902
Alma Mahler-Werfel
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Mahler-Werfel, Alma
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ed. Antony Beaumont
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Diaries 1898-1902
Mahler-Werfel, Alma
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr, 1999. 494 pp., 19 b&w illus. Usual library markings; pocket on back endpaper. No signs of wear/use. Tight, clean copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by bookmarkt, llc (United States)
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Mahler-Werfel, Alma
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Alma Mahler-Werfel; Translator-Anthony Beaumont; Editor-Susanne Rode-breymann
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