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Married Life (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'Married Life' (in Hebrew: Hayey Nisu'im ) is a novel written in Hebrew between 1927-1928 by Jewish novelist and poet David Vogel. The novel was first published in three sections between 19291931, and later on in a new edition in 1986.
Plot summary
Set in Vienna in the 1920s, 'Married Life' is an urban novel, in which that city had witnessed defeat in the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and plays a central role as the setting it is based in.
The social decay and presentiments of an ominous future mirror the pathological relationship between Rudolf Gurdweill, a poor Jewish intellectual and Dorothea "Thea" von Takow, an Austrian baroness who takes pleasure in humiliating him at every turn. The relationship is portrayed in telling detail as the couple descends till nightmarish depths of cruelty and masochism, eventually ending in Thea's sexual betrayal of Gurdweill and her murder at his own hands.
References
*[http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13482 Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature]
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