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Portrait of a Danish conman : Otto Stein - framed within the life and novels of his creator, Jacob Paludan /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton :
Sussex Academic Press,
[2021].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- The Cover Illustration
- The Danish Author, Jacob Paludan
- Part I: Routes to the Marsh Pool
- Otto's final step
- Dinner and death
- Kinships
- Familial motivation
- The lost present day
- Boundless ambition
- Deceit at the core
- Gatsby and Grünlich
- Fraternal choices
- Implicit faith
- Otto and the narrator
- Angel from the past
- Princess of poverty
- Otto's queen
- The future as guarantor
- The price of generosity
- Big spender
- The innocent conman
- The guilty client
- Full-blown swindle
- The screw tightens
- Advocate of darkness
- Destructiveness and joie de vivre
- Around the clock
- Self-preservation and self-image
- The mask drops
- King and bull
- The route to suicide
- The ambivalence of escape
- Sleuths
- The final night
- Death before normalisation and punishment
- Otto and Alberti
- Clarifications in the hinterland
- Transit
- Summing up
- Otto: Rival and role model
- Repercussions
- From fluff to world-class
- Part II: Genesis of Otto in JacobPaludan's Novels
- The parrot and the mites
- Suicide fish
- The end of winter life
- Face to face
- Enterprising women
- Rounding off
- Part III: Otto's Biographical Genesis
- Fatherly favouritism
- On the sidelines
- Freedom of thought en plein air
- A man of many talents
- The Royal Oak
- Rounding off
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover