by Michael Kleeberg · DVA Dt.Verlags-Anstalt · tapa dura · ISBN 9783421054487
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«Der König von Korsika» is the historical novel by Michael Kleeberg, published by DVA in hardcover (379 pages, in German).
The novel follows Theodor von Neuhoff, an adventurer who, after traveling across Europe as a secret agent, lover and alchemist, lets himself be proclaimed king of Corsica in 1736 by island insurgents. Kleeberg traces the rise and fall of a man convinced that politics is a game, and through him portrays the ambition, deceit and aspirations of an era.
The cover reproduces a red velvet chair on a beach under a stormy sky, with the subtitle «Roman». The work was originally published on August 1, 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and European fiction seeking novelized biographies of ambitious characters and period portraits.
Michael Kleeberg, is a German writer and translator. He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg. He lived in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he lives in Berlin as a full-time writer and translator from English and French.
