Can I read Georg Letham : physician and murderer on EtoBox?

Georg Letham : physician and murderer by Rotenberg, Joel; Weiss, Ernst is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Georg Letham : physician and murderer about?

First published in 1931 and now appearing for the first time in English, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer is a disquieting anatomy of a deviant mind in the tradition of Crime and Punishment. Letham, the treacherously unreliable narrator, is a depraved bacteriologist whose murder of his wife is, characteristically, both instinctual and premeditated. Convicted and exiled, he attempts to atone for his crimes through science, conceiving of the book we are reading as an empirical report on himself—whose ultimate purpose may be to substitute for a conscience. Yet Letham can neither understand nor master himself. His crimes are crimes of passion, and his passions remain more or less untouched by his reason—in fact they are constantly intruding on his "report," rigorous as it is intended to be. Both feverish and chilling, Georg Letham explores the limits of reason and the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity. Moving from an unnamed Central European city to arctic ice floes to a tropical island prison, this layered novel—with its often grotesquely comic tone and arresting images—invites us into the darkest chambers of the human psyche. **

Who reads Georg Letham : physician and murderer?

Author

Rotenberg, Joel; Weiss, Ernst

Publisher

Archipelago Books

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9783518372937

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14