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    Tag: Austria

    But love—the real, everlasting love

    Dear Marie, My reading of your novela Krambambuli (first published in Dorf- und Schlossgeschichten, 1883) comes colored by all the times I read it as a child. We…… Read more “But love—the real, everlasting love”

    1 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (née Marie Dubský von Třebomyslice. September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer. She was born to an aristocratic family in Moravia (now…… Read more “Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”

    1 de December de 20201 de December de 2020 by juliana

    And the money ate the blood

    Dear Maria, Die Vergiftung (“The Poisoning”, 1920) reads like a box full of family pictures. We are taking them out randomly, one by one, and some disembodied…… Read more “And the money ate the blood”

    10 de November de 2020 by juliana

    Maria Lazar

    Maria Lazar (née Maria Franziska Lazar. After marriage, Maria Franziska Strindberg. Pseudonym: Esther Grenen. November 22, 1895 – March 30, 1948) was an Austrian-Jewish writer. Born in…… Read more “Maria Lazar”

    4 de November de 202010 de November de 2020 by juliana

    Notes heard by no one reverberating against nothing

    Dear Robert, Intimate Ties, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911) comprises two novellas centred on repressed sexuality, taboo, and female desire. Both content and narrative style…… Read more “Notes heard by no one reverberating against nothing”

    11 de January de 201912 de January de 2019 by juliana

    Robert Musil

    Robert Musil (Robert Mathias Musil, 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian writer. From 1892 to 1894, he attended a military boarding school in Eisenstadt. From…… Read more “Robert Musil”

    11 de January de 201912 de January de 2019 by juliana

    Trust is fine, but control is better

    Dear Elfriede, Your novel The Piano Teacher, tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983) is vile and uncompromising: it dwells on the grotesque, crossed by an undercurrent…… Read more “Trust is fine, but control is better”

    3 de August de 20183 de August de 2018 by juliana

    Elfriede Jelinek

    Elfriede Jelinek (1946) is an Austrian writer of Jewish, Romanian and Czech descent. She graduated from the Vienna Conservatory with an organist diploma, and later studied art history and theater at…… Read more “Elfriede Jelinek”

    3 de August de 20183 de August de 2018 by juliana

    Hope is a wound

    Dear Marianne, The Weight of Things (2015), translated by Adrian Nathan West (Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse, 1978) is this odd thing: something in-between a horror story, a…… Read more “Hope is a wound”

    28 de November de 201729 de November de 2017 by juliana

    Marianne Fritz

    Marianne Fritz (14 December 1948 – 1 October 2007) was an Austrian writer. She completed her high school studies and received training as an office worker. Fritz worked as…… Read more “Marianne Fritz”

    28 de November de 201728 de November de 2017 by juliana

    They didn’t dare before; now they do, that’s all

    Dear Anna, I was halfway through Manja (tr. Kate Phillips, 2003. Manja: Ein Roman um 5 Kinder, 1938) this past week, when your book acquired a new…… Read more “They didn’t dare before; now they do, that’s all”

    13 de November de 201613 de November de 2016 by juliana

    Anna Gmeyner

    Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an exiled Austrian writer. She was born to liberal Jewish parents in Vienna, where her father…… Read more “Anna Gmeyner”

    13 de November de 20169 de March de 2020 by juliana

    Farewell to Berlin

    Dear Joseph, I’ve just finished two of your nonfiction books, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933, and The Wandering Jews: The Classic Portrait of a Vanished People, both translated…… Read more “Farewell to Berlin”

    17 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Joseph Roth

    Joseph Roth (1894 – 1939), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist. He was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg (now Lviv) in East Galicia, in what…… Read more “Joseph Roth”

    17 de November de 20144 de November de 2016 by juliana

    Alone among human beings

    Dear Stefan, I just finished reading three books of yours. I’ll give a brief account of each book, and then write about my general view of them.…… Read more “Alone among human beings”

    11 de November de 201417 de June de 2016 by juliana

    Stefan Zweig

    Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 in Vienna – February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Zweig was born in Vienna, which… Read more "Stefan Zweig"

    11 de November de 20144 de November de 2016 by juliana

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