Married Life: a novel

David Vogel

Married Life: a novel
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Published
25 September 2013
Pages
512
ISBN
9781922070586

Married Life: a novel

David Vogel

Set in Vienna in the 1920s, and published in Palestine in 1929, Vogel’s great novel Married Life is a portrait of a disastrous marriage between Dr Rudolf Gurdweill, a young Jewish writer, and Baroness Thea von Takow, an anti-Semitic aristocrat. Betrayal is a permanent feature of this miserable marriage, marked by von Takow’s frequent infidelities and Gurdweill’s desultory affair with the Jewish Lotte, who really loves him.

The novel abounds with descriptions of the city and its various inhabitants, for whom the consumption of countless cigarettes and cups of coffee, and endless rendezvous in cafes, seem to be central to their existence. Among the characters are the man who is in love with Lotte; a repulsive bookseller; a philosophershoemaker; and Thea’s sadistic brother. The central story, however, concerns Gurdweill’s unhappy love and loneliness, which impel him to take revenge on his wife.

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