Paul Leppin

Blaugast is the story of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path that spirals into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything to an evil prostitute, Wanda, he seeks redemption in a Prague that has become alien to him. Flashbacks and hallucinations point to the seeds of his eventual downfall. Unpublished during Leppin's lifetime, Blaugast ranks with Severin's Journey into the Dark for its portrayal of eroticism in a city that has become sybaritic and uncaring. Written in the 1930s as the Nazis were coming to power, it is also an indictment of the despotic, vulgar times and an exploration of sadistic tendencies. bull;based on the original typescript housed in the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague

A Novel of Decline

Blaugast

Reproduction of the original: Severins Gang in die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman by Paul Leppin

Severins Gang in Die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman

Prague - a city of darkened walls and strange decay - forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters as he enters a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons.

A Prague Ghost Story

Severins's Journey Into the Dark

Reproduction of the original: Severins Gang in die Finsternis Ein Prager Gespensterroman by Paul Leppin

Severins Gang in Die Finsternis Ein Prager Gespensterroman

Fiction. Erotica. "The Road to Darkness" contains two decadent and highly controversial novels: Daniel Jesus (first published in 1905) and Severin (first published in 1914)."I have seldom read a more disgusting book" (Richard Schaukal). "A series of disgusting orgies with some mystical drivel wrapped round the obscenities." Arthur Eloesser. Paul Leppin (1878-1945) was often termed the "troubadour" of the mysterious and erotic atmosphere of old Prague. A disciple of Gustav Meyrink, he matched his master in the evocation of the Czech capital. Translated from the German by Mike Mitchell.

Paul Leppin

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