ANDREAS is a novel of violence and naivety pathos and melancholy. Set in theeighteenth century it tells the story of a young Viennese aristocrat whointends to t... » 

ANDREAS is a novel of violence and naivety pathos and melancholy. Set in theeighteenth century it tells the story of a young Viennese aristocrat whointends to travel alone to Venice as the first stage of his Grand Tour. On hisjourney he acquires an unsavoury servant who unleashes a trail of destructionand violence which taints and corrupts Andreass first experience of love.Andreass loss of innocence takes place in the misty alleyways and gloomypalaces of Venice whose masked inhabitants confuse and entice him the womeneither madonnas or whores indistinguishable behind their masks. «