Wilhelm Eynhardt, a gifted young German who cannot settle to any belief or purpose, moves from a rowdy student outing in the mountains through journalism, politics and Berlin society, and a love affair that cannot end happily. Nordau dramatises the pessimism and nervous exhaustion he saw as the disease of his age.
A novel of ideas by the critic who wrote Degeneration, revealing about fin-de-siècle anxiety. Download the free EPUB.