The visitant

A translation of DER WIEDERGÄNGER (Frankfort: Rütten & Loening Verlag, 1929). ". the story of a neurotic husband who commits suicide but lives again in the soul of another man. The latter, rendered mentally abnormal by an accident, is thus endowed with a supernatural power whereby he re-embodies the physical and spiritual attributes of the dead man, and is forced to resume a quest for fulfillment in love which the husband had vainly sought to attain through his wife, a beautiful but weak-natured woman. Her life henceforward is overshadowed by the terror and attraction which 'the visitant' awakens in her." - publisher's blurb.