This sequel to Relationships contains texts by newer authors: Aigner, August, Baier, Brem, Brunmaier, Eibel, Ferk, Gruber, Gstrein, Hackl, Hermann,...

Text in German. Papers of a conference held in Vienna on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Alexander Lernet-Holenia's birth. Essays by: Mari...

Schwab's first play was performed in 1990; in 1992 German critics elected him playwright of the year; he died in 1994, leaving behind a total of so...

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 aft...

This book contains the entire collection of 582 aphorisms which the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) publi...

This book treats the renowned Austrian author and artist -- as thinker, by tracing the basic ideas in his novels and dramas; as artist, by tracing ...

Roberts takes issue with the still-prevalent though erroneous notion that Schnitzler was an apolitical writer. From 1880 to 1931 Schnitzler examine...

Schwebel was ten years old when his family escaped from Vienna in 1938 to seek refuge from Nazi persecution in Paris. After various sojourns in Fra...

This collection of thirty-eight impressionist episodes describes a white man's friendship with a group of Ashanti tribespeople from the Gold Coast ...

In London in 1827 Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) published this travel novel employing eye-witness accounts, history, and anecdote to expose the o...

National Image, which to a country is what character is for a person, ranks as an extremely important concern for every nation and for the people l...

These essays deal with the interaction between culture and politics during the period of the Austrian Corporate State, the five years preceding the...

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 mill...

Initially published in 1984, this is a revised translation into English and provides an informative Afterword by Lowell A Bangerter (Professor of G...

An impetuous street urchin with the slanted, yellowish eyes of a predator, a hardened peasant grandmother whose spirit remains unbroken by urban mi...

Unlike fantasy, science fiction has no deep tradition or broad basis in Austrian literature. It is mostly written by authors who have written no ot...

In turn-of-the-century Vienna the impoverished, foreign-born Stanislaus Demba, who earns his livelihood as a tutor of children of the professional ...

For centuries, Vienna had been the imperial residence and capital of the great multi-lingual, multi-national Habsburg Empire, and thus a magnet for...

Writing from his background as a conservatory-trained musician and his lifelong passion Gert Jonke (born in 1946) has produced literary works in ev...

The protagonist is a concentration-camp survivor who is summoned back to Vienna to testify at a belated war-crimes trial. In the course of his relu...

The Austrian poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and essayist, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), committed suicide partly in despair over the rise of t...

Like all good historical novels, 'Broken Songs' reveals what it was like for ordinary people to live through the great events of the history books....

The ageing Casanova, struggling in vain to regain his youth; a beautiful young Viennese socialite, compelled to sell her honour in order to save he...

Barbara Frischmuth, among the most widely recognised and respected Austrian writers today, is recognised not only for her descriptive skill, but al...

Okopenko's portrayal of a young boy during the Hitler years begins at the end, with the collapse of the Nazi Reich, then works its way back to 1939...

The daughter of a high-ranking Austrian military official has a spotless social image as hard-working and all the rest of it. Working in an army ho...

As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, sceptical mystic, and humorous sage, Roth has never fitted neatly into any one literary or historical c...

Essays devoted to the Austrian writer Josef Roth. As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, skeptical mystic and humorous sage, he has never fott...

"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 author, journalist, and grand dame of Austrian literature (as she was known in her own lifetime), Hilde Spiel, was born in Vienna in 1911. She ...

Contains 12 brief accounts by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) of decisive historical moments in which an individual's will to discover, create, and transc...

Schneider's play about prejudice and anti-foreign sentiment has become one of the most frequently performed works on the contemporary German stage....

Despite of the Nobel Prize of Literature and her wide-ranging literary production, Elfriede Jelinek is still not widely known in the English-speaki...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), an Austrian, is considered to be one of the most distinguished German-speaking poets of the years following World Wa...

The fact that many of Phia Rilke's texts are based on her own personal experiences and are not mere linguistic and intellectual wordplays invests t...

Herbert Eisenreich (1925-1986) was an ironic observer of Viennese middle-class mores. His stories, which have been compared with those of Maupassan...

The central event in Hilde's childhood occurred on 2 February 1945. She was a confused but compliant girl at the time. Now she is a depressed and a...

This is a collection of six essays that attempt to define and illustrate what it means to be Austrian. By illuminating the lives and careers of Fra...

Diary of he experience of Horst Jarka as an Austrian POW in Wales with an afterword by Gregory Weeks about memories and experiences of other Austri...

Elfriede Jelinek's wide-ranging literary production has brought her to the forefront of the Austrian literary scene. The fifteen essays collected h...

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 trag...

The aim of this volume is to trace Austria's development from the end of World War I to the present. Several essays examine Austro-American relatio...

The narrator of Anna Kim's novel Frozen Time is a relatively inexperienced researcher working for the Red Cross agency that assists people from the...

Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938) of Vienna, Austria, was a major European feminist and peace activist as well as an excellent scholar and superb writer. T...

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 i...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the most significant post-war women writers in German language literature and remains one of the most impo...

Anna O [Bertha Pappenheim] (1859-1936), a friend of Freud's wife in Vienna, is regarded as the first patient of psychoanalysis. It was she who inve...

Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching social milieu in a ...