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The Magnificent Wurlitzer

The Magnificent Wurlitzer

John Fraser

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AESOP Publications
Año de edición:
2009
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780956140906

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The Magnificent Wurlitzer is an epic work of literary fiction, divided into four parts. Its theme is that of the ’guilty Faust’ on a fantastic, grotesque journey seeking his truth, his Mephistopheles. Its hero treads in the footsteps of epics from East and West, Gilgamesh, the Ramayana, Götterdämmerung.

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