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About Author: Emil Lucka (born May 11, 1877 in Vienna, death December 15, 1941 ) was an Austrian writer .Lucka was the son of the merchant Robert Lucka and his wife Adele Taussig. The doctor Samuel Lucka was his uncle, the opera singer Pauline Lucka and the writer Mathilde Prager his cousins.After attending high school, Lucka began to study history, art history and philosophy in his hometown. After the early death of his father, Lucka dropped out of college to take care of his mother and his three sisters. He became an employee at the Zentral-Bodenbank in Vienna and published culture-critical essays in various magazines in parallel .As soon as his livelihood could be denied by his literary work alone, Lucka gave up his job as a bank official. According to their own statements Lucka was influenced by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, but also by the work of his friend Otto Weininger . Lucka took over in not very flattened form even the anti-Semitism of Weininger, because he felt "... all Nordic and the Germanic essence ..." close. In his late works, he distanced himself from it again.In 1901, Lucka converted from Jewish to Catholic faith.In 1927 he married Amalie Wenig in Vienna. In 1930 Lucka published "Fremdlinge", a biographical novel about the composer Anton Bruckner . In addition to his biography Weininger Lucka also published much acclaimed biographies of Dostoyevsky and Michelangelo .With his plays, Lucka was less fortunate; he could publish them, but they did not prevail and were barely played. The Viennese city theater tried on some; but since no success, they were not included in the repertoire.After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, Lucka's works were no longer allowed to appear and he himself was banned from writing . From 1938 he made his living from a small pension, which had been exposed to him by the central floor bank. Emil Lucka died at the age of 63 on December 15, 1941 in Vienna and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Source: WikipediaProduct Description: The object of this book, which is addressed to all cultured men and women, is to set forth the primitive manifestations of love and to throw light on those strange emotional climaxes which I have called Metaphysical Eroticism.
