Junkermann’s Swan Song returns to Vasily Karlovich Junkermann at the end of his life. The swaggering adventurer of the first volume—Cossack guard, refugee, social climber, and self-styled conqueror of interwar Athens—now confronts the reckoning of age, disillusionment, and decline.
Where Junkermann traced a frenetic rise shaped by appetite, ambition, and desire, this second volume turns inward, offering a darker, more introspective meditation on memory, loss, and mortality.
Older and increasingly isolated, Junkermann looks back on a life that now appears at once grand and grotesque, a farce animated by illusions of success, love, and masculine honour that have long since curdled into bitterness and emptiness. As past passions and betrayals resurface, the novel assumes a distinctly Faustian cast, probing the psychic costs of a life spent in pursuit of power and pleasure.
Manufacturer
- Author
- M. Karagatsis
- Publisher
- Aiora
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Release Date
- 2/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- -
- Pocket Size
- No
- Award
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9786182410172
Important information
Specifications are collected from official manufacturer websites. Please verify the specifications before proceeding with your final purchase. If you notice any problem you can report it here.