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Elfriede Jelinek's wide-ranging literary production has brought her to the forefront of the Austrian literary scene. The fifteen essays collected here demonstrate the significance of this major literary voice, addressing Jelinek as a master o...

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"Crime at Mayerling" deals with two of the most sensational crimes committed during the past century. Although separated in time by a hundred years, the two events are inextricably connected. In January 1889 the corpses of Archduke Rudol...

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Text in English & German. This volume contains the presentations given at the International Stefan Zweig Congress, held in Salzburg in February 1992. The essays are organised in five separate groups, each centring on a topic of concern to Zwei...

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Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printi...

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Contains 12 brief accounts by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) of decisive historical moments in which an individual's will to discover, create, and transcend the limits imposed by the temporal and physical environment conflicts with the individual's inab...

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The Austrian poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and essayist, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), committed suicide partly in despair over the rise of the Third Reich; but in the late 1930s, Zweig traveled to Brazil and wrote about its cities, history,...

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Initially published in 1984, this is a revised translation into English and provides an informative Afterword by Lowell A Bangerter (Professor of German, University of Wyoming) of a seminal and scholarly work that combines historical analysis, soc...

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The book examines Sigmund Freud's life and work, and sees tragedy as a concept of central importance in both. Politzer shows how for Freud the tragic experience -- later formulated as the Oedipus complex -- was at the root of the development of hu...

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In turn-of-the-century Vienna the impoverished, foreign-born Stanislaus Demba, who earns his livelihood as a tutor of children of the professional class, must urgently find two hundred crowns to take his girlfriend to Italy in order to prevent her...

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In the first half of the twentieth century, foreign visitors were witnesses to Austria's dramatic history. Political and social issues often overshadowed its traditional attractions. The editors present excerpts from material usually not included ...

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Robert Menasse, who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1954, speaks with the voice of the generation known as Nachgeborene ("those born after"). Although fortunate to have escaped the persecution and exile his parents endured, Me...

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Michael Koehlmeier was born in the Vorarlberg region of Austria in 1949. In addition to novels, he has written radio plays, essays and song texts in Vorarlberg dialect for the band Schellinski. He is married to the writer Monika Helfer and lives i...

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There is scarcely a modern writer more difficult to subsume under a single heading or category than Hugo von Hofmannsthal. His manifold gifts as a poet, playwright, librettist, novelist, essayist, anthologist and co-founder of the Salzburg Festiva...

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Arthur Schnitzer was not only a playwright with a keen eye for the human psyche, but he was also an astute social critic. He grappled with the double-standards of 'polite society', Jewish identity and gender relations, causing a scandal with nearl...

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Closely based on existing archive material, this short novel tells the true story of the life of Austrian artist Richard Gerstl, who took his own life in 1908 at the age of 25. Émigré Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir narrates his chance discovery o...

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Studies by notable literary critic and translator Alexander Stillmark comparing Hofmannsthal's best works with Novalis, Yeats, Chekhov, and Oscar Wilde.

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Collected essays by Alois Riegl from 1898-1904 dealing with the history of art, periodization, preservation,18th century interiors, the Vaphio cups, and early Christian basilicas. His essays on Jacob van Ruisdael and Cornelius Gurlitt also help pl...

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The first installment of prizewinning author Gerhard Roth's critically acclaimed Venice trilogy.

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The memoir of former editor/publisher of the Jerusalem Post . "Ari Rath explores and illuminates the soul of Zionism in his enthralling life story, from Vienna under the Nazis to present-day Israel." -Ruth Klüger

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The memoir of former editor/publisher of the Jerusalem Post . "Ari Rath explores and illuminates the soul of Zionism in his enthralling life story, from Vienna under the Nazis to present-day Israel." -Ruth Klüger

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