{"product_id":"vase-of-pompeii-a-play-lajos-walder","title":"Vase of Pompeii: A Play - Lajos Walder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn his sixtieth birthday, Monsieur Lebordin, a world-renowned scholar and antiquities expert, suffers a heart attack while alone in his one-room apartment in Paris, and is visited by the mysterious stranger Angela, who, as we find out in the course of the play, is not at all who she appears to be ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Lebordin reminisces about his life—his loveless marriage and failure as a father, opportunities missed and roads not taken, the price of professional success—it is the Vase of Pompeii that moves center stage: brought to him years ago by a young and beautiful American millionairess to be authenticated, it embodies the gift of love he rejected and the life he did not live ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in 1930s France, \"Vase of Pompeii\" is a Symbolist masterpiece, social commentary (applying as much to our own time as to pre-war Europe) masquerading as bourgeois tragedy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpper West Side Philosophers, Inc. 2017, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"Yjhzub\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eLajos Walder (1913–1945):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Arguably one of the most significant modern Hungarian poets. A Jewish lawyer by trade, he was barred from practicing due to rising antisemitism and forced into a Hungarian labor battalion. He tragically died in the Gunskirchen concentration camp on the day of its liberation. His family safely preserved his manuscripts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which were later translated into English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum Donation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45098303356997,"sku":"203411","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/vase-of-pompeii-a-play-lajos-walder-vaseofpompeii-3747611.jpg?v=1781030107","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/vase-of-pompeii-a-play-lajos-walder","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}