After Holbein

Wharton, Edith

A Classic Tale of 1920s New York Society, Aging Aristocrats, Class Performance, Memory, and Mortality

7,60 €

ISBN: 9788027380404

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 63 g

Produktinformationen "After Holbein"

After Holbein turns Edith Wharton's unsparing social intelligence toward the twilight of old New York. The story follows two aging remnants of a vanished aristocratic world, moving through ritual, memory, and delusion as though society's forms could still sustain meaning. Its title evokes Holbein's grave portraiture and danse macabre, fitting Wharton's late style: compressed, ironic, visually precise, and elegiac. In the literary context of postwar modernity, the tale is both social satire and meditation on mortality, exposing how class performance survives even when class power has decayed. Wharton, born into the very New York elite she anatomized, wrote with the authority of intimacy and the severity of exile. By the time of this late work, she had witnessed the collapse of the codes that shaped her youth, the disruptions of war, and the rise of a less ceremonious modern order. Her lifelong concern with manners, architecture, inheritance, and emotional constraint converges here in miniature. Readers interested in Wharton beyond The Age of Innocence will find After Holbein indispensable: brief, polished, and devastating. It rewards those drawn to psychological nuance, social history, and fiction that renders decline with both cruelty and compassion.

Eigenschaften "After Holbein"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories
Verlag:	e-artnow

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