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100 1 _aErtl, Emil,
_d1860-1935
245 1 4 _aDer Berg der Läuterung
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-13
505 0 _aDie Sofapuppe -- Das Rotkehlchen -- Die Sphinx -- Der Mieter -- Die Zobelkinder.
508 _athe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Der Berg der Läuterung" by Emil Ertl is a collection of stories written in the early 20th century. Framed by a Dantean motif of trial and purification, it portrays post–World War I Viennese lives tested by vanity, poverty, and moral choice. The pieces follow elegant and fallen households, clerks and craftsmen, and the uneasy bargains between love, pride, and survival, with figures such as Aimée, her estranged husband Harry, the widowed Berta Larisch, and the ruined friends Ziervogel and Bock at the center. The opening of the book first presents Die Sofapuppe: Aimée, a wealthy young wife, is unsettled by a Japanese doll that seems to speak, then tracks its maker to a cold attic where she finds her former friend Berta—now a dignified, impoverished war widow with a small son—quietly surviving by crafting luxury puppets. Stirred by shame and impulse, Aimée secretly leaves her diamond rivière in Berta’s sewing basket, only to face her husband’s cold vanity and later receive the necklace back, intact. The next piece, Das Rotkehlchen, shifts to the retired confectioner Ziervogel and his dour friend Bock, ground down by inflation, theft, and merciless bureaucracy; alongside Anna’s tender wish to free a pet robin and her visits to a sick child upstairs, the two men weather a day of petty humiliations that ends with a grim pact to end their lives in the Danube once fair weather comes, even as they bicker about their children and an old, almost comic childhood feud. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLeipzig: L. Staackmann Verlag, 1922
653 _aShort stories, Austrian
653 _aAustrian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76870
999 _c117595
_d117595