- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (1 July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857990528
- ISBN-13: 978-1857990522
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 611,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Old Count von Bek remembers his sexual glory days in pre-1914 Mirenburg. He remembers Alexandra, his teenage lover and the brothel in Rosenstrasse where outrageous fantasies were realised. But all the while civil war closes in. Politics and military power soon destroy the exotic and erotic mirage.
About the Author
Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tastefully sexy, deeply serious,
This review is from: The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (Paperback)
Set at the turn of the 19th/20th century in a middle European principality's capital, Mirenberg, the main action of this novel takes place in a high class brothel. Here all the materialism and greed which lead up to the first world war is displayed in the tale of the roue Count von Bek and his obsession with a teenage girl whom he eventually takes to the brothel in Rosenstrasse, overseen by a clever old procuress and madame, to enjoy every possible erotic fantasy with the aid of the ladies who live there. Meanwhile, outside, a war is brewing and ultimately von Bek, his paramour and other customers and denizens of the brothel are all stuck inside together as the battles come closer and closer. This is a highly original and beautifully written novel in the best European moral tradition, with echoes of Thomas Mann and even Proust. Moorcock is a seriously undervalued writer by the reading public, though critics such as Peter Ackroyd, Angus Wilson, Angela Carter and Iain Sinclair have all praised him, and this is one of his finest, and shortest, works. It would be a fine introduction to anyone who wanted to read his non-fantasy fiction.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautiful prose, clever idea,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (Paperback)
Set at the turn of the last century in a small independent province dominated by the Austro-Hungarian and Prussian empires,this book reminded me somewhat of German writers of the period and perhaps it has something in common with the likes of Heinrich Mann and Joseph Roth in its precise attention to detail, its cast of representative characters, its interest in what you might call Freudian sexuality. Old Count von Bek, exiled to Italy, remembers his finest hour (as he sees it) when he began an affair with the young daughter of friends. Their erotic obsessions take them to Frau Schmetterling's (Madam Butterfly's) fashionable and elegant brothel in Rosenstrasse, Mirenberg where they enjoy a vast menu of perverse sexual pleasures. Moorcock draws parallels between the life of the brothel and the decadent life of upper class Middle Europe which lets us slip inexorably towards disaster. A short, brilliantly written book which displays all Moorcock's virtues (apart from his skill as an adventure writer). If you don't want to read his fantasy books or even his fine London novels, this is a book almost any reader of good fiction will enjoy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
QUIET GENIUS,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (Paperback)
The clarity and the intensity of the writing of this book are extraordinary. Why it isn't recommended as a classic everywhere I don't understand. This is a far subtler analysis of sexuality and power than you find in, say, Ballard, who is Moorcock's only other peer in his ability to examine the sexual and social fault lines of modern life. This book is set at the turn of the 20th century and is an examination of 'erotomania' while at the same time it tells the story of a great civilisation being destroyed by war, a sort of prefiguring of what was to come in 1914 And it's interesting to note that Moorcock as usual touches on themes which have later been dealt with by far less substantial writers like MacEwen. Most of these writers are far less ambitious and simply don't bear rereading the way Moorcock does. If you want a wonderful examination of a society in decline as well as a portrait of a man obsessed with sex, particularly in the sexuality of his under-ge partner, this is the book for you! Honestly, this is a serious and wonderful book, beautifully written and with superb characters. There's not a hint of sci fi or fantasy in it, as in much of Moorcock's best work. Not a bad book to start with if you want to get into the real Moorcock. Forget the flashy fantasies, this is work that shows you why so many other writers think Moorcock is the best.
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