Luftmensch
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ISBN13: 9798283061849
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Luftmensch is a haunting, lyrical historical fiction novel set in the shadowed brilliance of 1920s Vienna-a city of revolutions, dreams, and ghosts. At its heart is Levy, a drifting young intellectual, who stumbles through philosophy seminars, smoky cafés, and brothels in search of meaning, love, and-quite literally-air. Caught between history and imagination, Levy begins to suspect that his lifelong dream of floating may be more than mere metaphor. As politics darken and reality fractures, Luftmensch becomes a meditation on gravity-both physical and existential-and what it means to rise above a world intent on pulling us down. Blending historical fiction with magical realism, and echoing the spirits of Kafka, Hesse, and Singer, Luftmensch is the story of a man who tries to escape not only fascism, but the weight of being. With philosophical depth, poetic language, and historical resonance, The Luftmensch is a story about how we survive when the ground beneath us shifts, and about those who float-not because they are free, but because there is nowhere left to land.
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