The tobacconist

The tobacconist

by Seethaler, Robert

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Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers. Over time, an unlikely friendship develops between the two very different men. When Franz falls desperately in love with the vaudeville dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As the political and social conditions dramatically wor…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The tobacconist / Robert Seethaler ; translated by Charlotte Collins.

Summary

Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers. Over time, an unlikely friendship develops between the two very different men. When Franz falls desperately in love with the vaudeville dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As the political and social conditions dramatically worsen with the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany and the Nazis' arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. And each has to make a big decision: to stay or to flee?

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Anansi International
  • Place of Publication:Toronto, Ontario
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2016

Notes

Translation of: Der trafikant.

The Physical Object

  • Description:234 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781770899650, 1770899650
  • oclc:ocn944379967
  • LC Classification:PT2721.E48
  • Dewey Decimal:833/.92

Subjects

(fast)1900 - 1999 (fast)Austria--Vienna (fast)Fiction (fast)Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 (fast)Historical fiction (fast)History (lcgft)Historical fiction (lcsh)Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Fiction (lcsh)Vienna (Austria)--History--20th c… (lcsh)World War, 1939-1945--Austria--Vi… Austria -- Vienna Erzählende Literatur fast)World War (1939-1945 Fiction Fictional Work Fiktionale Darstellung Freud, Sigmund Freundschaft Geschichte 1937-1938 Historical fiction

Writers

Seethaler, Robert Collins, Charlotte, (Translator)

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