Pollak's Arm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

von Trotha, Hans.

Contributor:

Lauffer, Elisabeth.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York City : New Vessel Press, 2022.

Summary:

October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next day, Monsignor M dispatches an envoy to a stately palazzo where Ludwig Pollak lives nearby to bring him and his family as inconspicuously as possible to safety within the papal premises. But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. His visitor is obliged to take a seat and listen as he recounts his life story: how he studied archaeology in Prague, of his passion for Italy and Goethe, how he became a renowned antiquities dealer and advisor to great collectors like J.P. Morgan and the Austro-Hungarian emperor after his own Jewishness barred him from an academic career, and finally of his spectacular discovery of the missing arm from the majestic ancient sculpture of Laocoön. Torn between hearing Pollak's spellbinding tale and the urgent mission to save the archaeologist from certain annihilation, the Vatican's anxious messenger presses him to make haste and depart. This stunning novel illuminates the chasm between civilization and barbarism by recalling a forgotten figure devoted to knowledge and the power of artistic creation.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Pollak's Arm

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-954404-01-8

OCLC:

1285778883