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Books : Literature & Fiction : World Literature : Austrian
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This collection of short stories set in the crown jewel of Europe is an excellent introduction to the exceptionally rich contemporary Austrian literature spanning from the fin-de-siecle "dream-world Vienna" to more recent Nobel prize-winning authors. Vienna is not only home to historic cathedrals, formal teahouses, and a sparkling café culture, but it is also the birthplace of new movements of thought that cover art and the human psyche. While illustrating a century of shifting forms and styles, these stories beautifully convey the Viennese nature and spirit.
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An anthology of German and Austrian Jewish writings, in the original German, after the Shoah.
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This is the only English-language book to deal in depth with Austrian women writers of the postwar and contemporary period. It is a comparative study of the works of Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Frischmuth, Elfriede Jelinek, and Brigitte Schwaiger. Their works are examined in light of their criticism of women's position in Austrian society, the writers' relationship to feminism, and the influence of the change in women's status on their literature. Vansant's introduction provides a broad historical overview and discusses some of the factors influencing the development of women's literature in Austria from 1918 to the present.
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The Last Living Words consists of works of poetry and fiction published during the life of the great Austrian writer. Brilliantly translated by Lilian Friedberg (winner of the Kayden Translation Award) presents a new perspective on this important, internationally renowned figure. Friedberg’s Bachmann is no longer the frail and tortured writer presented in so many previous translations, but she stands as a woman and writer.
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These essays give new insight into the work of two Austrian writers exiled in the United States: "Charles Sealsfield," a runaway monk writing in English; and Ferdinand Kurnberger. A close reading of Kafka in the light of homosexual revelations from his recently published diaries, and a re-interpretation of Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch add to our understanding of masculinity, while a fresh look at Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Maline reveals much about gender relations in the period.
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In the course of the twentieth century, Austria has been transformed from the centre of a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual empire of fifty-three million people to a republic of approximately eight million predominantly German-speaking citizens. The demise of the Habsburg Empire, the traumas of two world wars, the barbarism of fascism, and the political stability and economic prosperity of the Second Austrian Republic have all played a significant role in shaping modern Austrian identities. The short stories included in this volume, written by such authors as Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, and Arthur Schnitzler, present a vivid array of Austrian characters whose lives have been shaped by both major historical events and the concerns and contingencies of everyday existence.
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In the second half of the 20th century a large number of exceptional writers emerged from the small Austrian Republic. Yet the relationship of many of these writers with state and society in Austria has often been unhappy. Austrian writers have felt themselves excluded from the mainstream. This collection provides an opportunity to sample the rich variety of post-war Austian writing.
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Austrian literature holds a special place in the German-language literature of our day. Despite the high regard in which Austrian authors are held, it has nevertheless always been more difficult for Austrian women writers to find a place in the literary canon. ESCAPING EXPECTATIONS offers therefore not only a fascinating collection of stories, but also a unique opportunity for the reading public to explore the often overlooked female side of contemporary Austrian literature. These diverse, well-written and often gripping texts by women authors reveal much about women's lives and about the lives of women writers in the Austrian milieu.
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This book focuses on representations of familial conflict in German and Austrian prose of the last twenty-five years. Some of the most prominent German and Austrian writers examine the theme of familial conflict that cannot be explained by traditional explanations: psychic hostilities, economic deprivation, or repressed experience. At the heart of these novels is the collision between the bonds of family and the events that form the decisive turning points of our age: National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Snyder Hook examines five novels in detail: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Thomas Bernhard's Auslöschung, Peter Schneider's Vati, Elfriede Jelinek's Die Ausgesperrten, and Elisabeth Reichart's Februarschatten. Central to the discussions of each novel are questions of guilt, cultural identity, and atonement, and of the relocation of these ultimately unresolvable issues from the larger national and political arena to the realm of intimate relationships between parents and children.Elizabeth Snyder Hook is professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.
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