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My First Two Thousand YearsThe Autobiography of the Wandering JewBy George Sylvester Viereck and Paul EldridgeFrom Midwest Book Review, August 2001: “George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was a German-born poet and novelist. Paul Eldridge (1888-1982) was a poet and authored a number of plays and essays. In My First Two Thousand Years: The Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, Viereck and Eldridge collaborated to write an impressive, 512-page novel that purports to be the personal story of Cartaphilius (alias Isaac Laquedem), a young man who was the 'wandering jew' of ancient myth. An elegant and immortal young man, his 'autobiography' provides us with portraits of Salome, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Nero, Attila, Mohammed, Don Juan, Leonardo da Vinci, Pope Alexander, Rothschild, Spinoza, Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Lenin, Mussolini, and other historical figures. All intertwined with fascinating social commentaries, philosophic observations, as well as history- and science-based episodes with a new perspective through which we can view them. My First Two Thousand Years is an original and enduring work of literary substance that a whole new generation of readers can now discover with enthusiasm and appreciation.”
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