The author of Lolita writes a story of interfamilial seduction and betrayal. The wife of a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a male clothing emporium, Martha is repelled by her husband's oblivious passion and thirsts for their nephew.
The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store.Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha.Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed."