Илья Эренбург. Белый уголь, или Слезы Вертера
Первое издание
Ленинград: Прибой 1928г.
260 стр., 20х14 см. В издательском картонажном переплёте. Обычный формат.
Тираж: 5000 экз. Редкость.
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Ilya Ehrenburg. White Coal, or Werther's Tears
First edition
Leningrad: Priboy 1928
260 pp., 20x14 cm. In a publisher's cardboard binding. Standard format.
Edition: 5,000 copies. Rare.
White coal is electricity, modern industry, the beauty of machines, and the transformation of man himself into a machine. Werther is the hero of Goethe's famous story, an old-fashioned young man with sad eyes. Werther's tears are a symbol of the old, sentimental culture of European humanism. White coal makes Werther's tears a funny relic.