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Summary

In Edwardian Europe on the brink of the First World War, a wealthy young seducer drifts through Italy, Switzerland and the Alps, his erotic conquests intertwined with the political upheavals of the age. Berger borrows from cubist painting and essayistic interruption, fragmenting the narrative so that history and desire constantly comment on each other. The book's restless formal experiments helped redraw the boundaries between fiction, criticism and political argument.