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100 1 _aWerfel, Franz,
_d1890-1945
240 1 4 _aDer Tod des Kleinbürgers. Finnish
245 1 0 _aKuoleman voittaja
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-07
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Kuoleman voittaja" by Franz Werfel is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Karl Fiala, an aging former imperial doorman in postwar Vienna, whose fragile pride and fear of destitution collide with illness, family strain, and a dubious life‑insurance promise. Likely themes include mortality, social decline, and the small illusions that sustain dignity, as Fiala struggles to secure a future for his wife and epileptic son. The opening of the novel sketches the Fialas’ cramped life on the city’s margins: Karl clings to relics of his lost status, Marie tends the home, her caustic sister Klara hoards and bullies, and Franzl wanders jobless and ill. Pressed by poverty and terror of the poorhouse, Karl is charmed by their neighbor Schlesinger, an insurance agent, into a policy he believes will protect his family after he’s gone, a quiet hope briefly celebrated on his name day. Soon after, with a grim resolve, he sends Franzl to secure a hospital bed and admits himself; a young doctor finds high fever and cascading ailments that harden into double pneumonia. The section closes with the hospital summoning Marie, signaling that Karl’s condition has turned critical. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cFinland: Arvi A. Karisto osakeyhtiö, 1928
653 _aGerman fiction -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aLeivo, Anna
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77639
999 _c118359
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