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The Story of My Wife: The Reminiscences of Captain Storr
The Story of My Wife The Reminiscences of Captain Storr Author:Milan Fust, Professor Ivan Sanders (Translator), Professor George Konrad (Introduction) The Dutch sea captain, Jacob, narrator and protagonist of the late Hungarian poet-novelist Fust's 1957 work, is a man caught in the paralyzing grip of a implacable obsession. "My wife's been unfaithful," he declares in the opening line, "this much I have long suspected." That fixed idea, whether or not founded on trut... more »h, haunts him throughout the book-long interior monologue, set mostly in Paris and London. He himself feels free to engage in some dalliances, but his French wife Lizzy remains fixed in his mind as a treacherous, "depraved woman," a hussy of "loose" morals.« less