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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The two stories contained in this edition -- 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and 'History of a Promise' -- reveal Erich Hackl's unique and luminous perspective on the relationship between historical reality and literary representation. Drawing on historical documents and authentic individuals, Hackl portrays the inspiring lives of those who have suffered the terror and injustice of twentieth-century fascism. Recovering from a wound sustained as a result of his involvement with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, the Austrian Karl Sequens falls in love with Herminia Roudiere Perpina, a strong and scrupulous Spanish woman who cared for him in the hospital. The story of their brief but enduring love both for each other and for social justice is narrated through the memory of their daughter Rosa Maria in 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection'. In his touching portrait of the fate of these non-fictional individuals, Erich Hackl illuminates an alternate perspective on Austria's position in the frenzied social and political configurations that mark Europe from the 1920s to the 1990s.In "History of a Promise," the mind of the septuagenarian protagonist Willi retraces a path from his poverty in the Vienna of the First Republic through his internment in the concentration camps to his entrepreneurial success in his chosen South American exile as he reveals for the first time a promise that he had made. Contains two stories - "Love at First Sight: A Recollection" and "History of a Promise" - portraying the inspiring lives of those who have suffered the terror and injustice of twentieth-century fascism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An impetuous street urchin with the slanted, yellowish eyes of a predator, a hardened peasant grandmother whose spirit remains unbroken by urban misery, a beautiful, insane Amazon with a horribly fascinating serpentine scar, an unemployed father turned sex-murderer, an animal trainer who loses control of his beasts at a critical moment, a doctor in charge of a ward in a mental institution, and the tiger -- these are central figures in a story that explores a variety of problems characteristic of modern existence: alienation, moral degeneration, mental and spiritual decay, the collapse of the family, the timeless conflicts between male and female, parent and child, nature and civilisation. "The Bengal Tiger" describes a small boy's search for love, acceptance, and security in a hostile environment. Describes a small boy's search for love, acceptance, and security in a hostile environment. This story also explores a variety of problems characteristic of modern existence: alienation, moral degeneration, mental and spiritual decay, family collapse, the timeless conflicts between male and female, parent and child, and, nature and civilisation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The world is familiar with Mozart the composer, but in his private life he lived a variety of other roles: husband, father, son, and cousin, among others. The intent of Gloria Kaiser's edited and adapted collection of excerpts from his personal correspondence is to present an intimate creative revelation of Mozart the man from perspectives other than the one from which he is commonly viewed. Within that representation of a great, yet tragic existence, the famous composer emerges as a human being whose emotions and experiences are not far removed from our own. The world is familiar with Mozart the composer, but in his private life he lived a variety of other roles: husband, father, son, and cousin, among others. This book presents a revelation of Mozart from perspectives other than the one from which he is commonly viewed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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. Told from the child's perspective, it paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up in a state where almost everything was seen in terms of National Socialist ideology. The basic mode of realistic narration is enriched with a wide variety of stylistic devices, ranging from diary entries, school essays, lists and dramatised dialogue to abrupt switches of perspective and poetic evocations of mood. The inclusion of a large number of authentic 'objects' -- for example, songs, jokes, posters and slogans -- helps to give the reader the flavour of the period. 'Child Nazi' is about childhood and adolescence, but it is also about childhood and adolescence at a time when even the most personal thoughts and feelings were manipulated by the ruling system to bind the rising generation to Nazism and its leaders. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Georg Potyka, an Austrian civil servant in the diplomatic service, has written a novel about a fictional colleague, Leopold Navratil. Since boyhood, Navratil has been emboldened by his fantasy to fight evil and strive for good. An unspoken wager with a comrade is to determine which of them remains honourable to the end. However, to avoid conflict within the Third Reich, Navratil must struggle with his conscience and attempt to avoid compromising his ideals, as represented by the wager, while still safeguarding his family and his own existence. Though Leopold Navratil survives the war, he does not survive the peace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The best access to Vienna is through its history. This chronologically organised survey of Vienna from its origins to the present does not presuppose any detailed knowledge of Central European history. The book covers cultural, political and social influences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 Austrian prisoners of war being held in England and the United States. "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 Austrian prisoners of war being held in England and the United States."--Provided by publisher. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 276 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), the son of a doctor, a liberal Jew, was born in Czortkow (now Chortkiv) and grew up in Czernowitz (now Chernivsty); both towns, until 1918 part of the Habsburg Empire. He studied law, but did not want to work as an advocate; a position of judge was barred to him, as a Jew, and he refused to convert in order to advance his career. He became a journalist and edited important literary magazines in Vienna and, after 1886, in Berlin. But it was as a writer of reportage, short stories and novels set in his homeland, the area of East Galicia and the Bukovina, that he became widely known during his lifetime. His portrayal of the people of this backward area is not at all folksy local colour, but is informed by his deep humanitarian concern for the oppressed and exploited classes and nationalities. For all his knowledge of local habits and customs which informs his novels, the main emphasis in his work is on the individual. 'Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child' (first published in 1896), is set in East Galicia, nowadays a province of the Ukraine.It portrays a poverty-stricken Jew whose religion is personal and deeply felt and causes the inevitable tragedy to unfold. Set in East Galicia, this novel portrays a poverty-stricken Jew whose religion is personal and deeply felt and causes the inevitable tragedy to unfold. The author's portrayal of the people of backward areas is not at all folksy local colour, but is informed by his deep humanitarian concern for the oppressed and exploited classes and nationalities. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A coming-of-age novel that is set in a farming village near Klagenfurt and in Salzburg, Austria during the later 1970s. Its sure sense of place and time and its psychological acuity suggest the intimacy of autobiographical experience that knows how traditions of patriarchal abuse and the dictates of conformity disfigure a seemingly idyllic milieu. A person of inquisitive intelligence, Truschner's protagonist observes the dynamics of dysfunctional relationships with the dispassionate objectivity of an outsider and the tenderness of a wounded, disoriented sensitivity in search of human closeness. A novel set in a farming village near Klagenfurt and in Salzburg, Austria during the later 1970s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Inscribed, "For Tiny and Carolyn - You may not recognize or remember the help you gave, Tiny! With Thanks David". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Translator.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In London in 1827 Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) published this travel novel employing eye-witness accounts, history, and anecdote to expose the oppressive Austrian regime under Emperor Francis I and his Prime Minister Metternich. His political observations are supplemented and embellished by his many detailed descriptions of the fads and fancies of the age, anecdotes and court gossip surrounding major historical figures, as well as by his dry wit which all combine to produce an eminently readable and informative book. During his lifetime Charles Sealsfield was a mystery, an unknown in so far as his identity was concerned. As a young Austrian emigre, his first publications were colorful descriptions of the fledgling United States on the one hand and of the moribund Austrian Empire on the other. Within a few years he became widely celebrated as the author of popular fiction about the American West, considered by many to be superior to American-born authors such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Barbara Frischmuth, among the most widely recognised and respected Austrian writers today, is recognised not only for her descriptive skill, but also for being a moderate feminist. In these four short tales she presents realistic portraits of women caught up in relationships determined largely by social conventions, internalised roles, and sometimes just plain bad luck. Taking her title from Ecclesiastes "All is vanity and a chasing after the wind" she presents psychologically sound studies of women protagonists' futile efforts to break out of the dead-end situations, in which they have been trapped. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. American First. Minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; includes an extensive bibliography of sources; 208 pages; dust is protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 200pp. Laminated stiff card covers, 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers. The very last leaf of the book has a short corner crease else neat, clean, bright and tight.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 190 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. Explores the special relationship between an author and his father, a well-known press photographer. Record # 33159.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Issued in softcover only. The front cover shows light corner wear, else Fine, a bright, clean, unread copy.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Turrini's theatre works extend far beyond their Austrian origins in expressing the hopes, frustrations, and hypocrisies of life in the modern world. The plays contained in this volume -- A Crazy Day, Joseph and Mary, A Social Engagement, and The Slackers -- offer English-speaking readers a representative sampling of Turrini's work. As varied as they may seem, two unifying threads run through them all: Turrini's use of language to admonish society and his articulation of the element of tragedy which informs and defines modern man in his isolation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 Franz Schubert, Ferdinand Raimund, Johann Nestroy, Franz Grillparzer, Adalbert Stifter, and Johann Strauss, the author makes a case for his theses that Austria is understood neither by Austrians nor the world at large, and that consistent characteristics of Austrianness include failure to measure up to individual potential, an almost conscious avoidance of greatness, and the tendency for a career to break off before it is finished. A collection of six essays that attempt to define and illustrate what it means to be Austrian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 relations during this century, and five of the twenty-five contributions deal with aspects of the Waldheim controversy and Austria's connection with the Third Reich. The remaining articles provide a comprehensive overview of Austrian life, politics, and culture from diverse perspectives. Aims to trace Austria's development since the end of World War I. This work examines Austro-American relations during this century, and deals with aspects of the Waldheim controversy and Austria's connection with the Third Reich. It provides a comprehensive overview of Austrian life, politics, and culture from diverse perspectives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The sports journalist Maximilian Reich was arrested on March 17, 1938 in Vienna and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau with the so-called Transport of the Prominent (Prominententransport) on the first of April. Reich was one of 151 men: among them were former ministers of state, judges, two men who later became Federal Chancellors, Jewish journalists, writers and artists. While Reich was struggling to survive the ordeal both in Dachau and later in Buchenwald, his Aryan wife Emilie in Vienna was leading the battle to gain his release as well as to get permission for the family to emigrate. The complementary accounts of Max and Emilie Reich are in all probability the first reports written by Austrian victims of National Socialism. In their capacity to amplify and clarify each other, the dual points of view of husband and wife form a uniquely enriched portrait of the times and events. Henriette Mandl not only rescued the manuscripts of her parents from obscurity but edited them for publication and contributed her own short commentary as well. Also included is a brief history of the first transport of Austrians to Dachau by the historian Wolfgang Neugebauer. With an essay by Wolfgang Neugebauer about the First Transport of Austrians to the Concentration Camp at Dachau. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 human civilization. In the light of this idea he examines Freud's interpretation of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Michelangelo's statue Moses. He also looks at the relationship with Jung in terms of the father-son conflict. A final chapter, designated 'appendix' portrays the younger generation of the 1970's 'flower-power' movement, as a 'post-Oedipal generation'. Politzer's book is also a celebration of Sigmund Freud as a literary author in his own right. Examines Sigmund Freud's life and work, and sees tragedy as a concept of central importance in both. This work shows how for Freud the tragic experience was at the root of the development of human civilization. It also examines Freud's interpretation of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Michelangelo's statue Moses. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Despite of the Nobel Prize of Literature and her wide-ranging literary production, Elfriede Jelinek is still not widely known in the English-speaking world. The essays collected here demonstrate the range and significance of this major literary voice, addressing Jelinek as a master of modernist prose, of post-modern critiques of literary genres, of stage and screen, and of feminist and antifiscist criticism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 few salient strokes and creating almost unbearably intense moments of dramatic suspense, he has for over thirty years been riveting the attention of viewers on the suffering of such oppressed groups as the aged (Siberia), the mentally challenged (No Room for Idiots) and the workingmen and women in thrall to corrupt corporations (One Everyman). The two plays offered here, In the Lions' Den and The Panther, fall well within the purview of Mitterer's social concerns, portraying as they do, respectively, the plight of the Jews in the Third Reich and, once again, the aged in contemporary society. Yet they also reveal a deeper and more personal thematic vein having to do with the intimate symbiosis of language and individual identity. In Lions' Den the Jewish protagonist Kirsch affects Tyrolean dialect to create an Aryan persona for survival purposes, in effect corroborating the idealist doctrine, esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived, as this or that).You are what you can persuade others you are, and God help you if your powers of persuasion fail you! In The Panther the old man's self-image, his very sense of himself, erodes with the chipping-away of age at his memory of the lines that make up Rilke's immortal Dinggedicht. In both plays the bedrock ordering of experience imposed by language is strained to the breaking point, leaving the protagonists teetering on the brink of the abyss that looms just beyond personal identity. Of his own life the self-effacing Felix Mitterer has said: "Its only unusual aspect is that I became a writer, that I was saved and others weren't". His words allude obliquely to the grinding poverty and backbreaking work he had to endure labouring on the farms of the Tyrol as he grew up. They also convey his solidarity with those "others" who could not make it out of the Alpine ghetto and suggest his deep commitment to make their plight, and that of other oppressed groups, the driving force of his dramatic art. Felix Mitterer has done what all true artists do, transformed his personal demons into angels of art.And in tracing, through that art, the correspondence between his own demons and those of society, he masters them, not only in himself but in the receptive viewer (or reader) as well. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Essays devoted to the Austrian writer Josef Roth. As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, skeptical mystic and humorous sage, he has never fotted neatly into any literary or historical category. Essays devoted to the Austrian writer Josef Roth. As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, skeptical mystic and humorous sage, he has never fotted neatly into any literary or historical category. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Softcover 2013, edition. Covers and text in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. CD hermetically seal to back cover. (349 pages).

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Roberts takes issue with the still-prevalent though erroneous notion that Schnitzler was an apolitical writer. From 1880 to 1931 Schnitzler examined human conflict from the duel to war, and commented on social and political circumstances. Roberts draws upon previously unpublished documents to support his interpretation of Schnitzler's oeuvre from a socio-political perspective. Takes issue with the still-prevalent though erroneous notion that Schnitzler was an apolitical writer. From 1880 to 1931 Schnitzler examined human conflict from the duel to war, and commented on social and political circumstances. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book gives voice to experiences by Austrian and Austrian Jewish women during World War II and the Holocaust through a social and historical reading of fiction, creative non-fiction, and memoirs by post-World War II Austrian women writers. Texts by women who were exiled to China or Great Britain, girls and women struggling to survive on the home front, activists in the Austrian resistance, and informed second- and third-generation chroniclers reveal deeply personal stories of ordinary girls and women facing extraordinary times. Their stories bear witness to the past and contribute to reshaping Austria's history and its national identity in the twenty-first century. The volume will engage and inform all readers with an interest in women's history and literature, Holocaust studies, and Austrian studies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This sequel to Relationships contains texts by newer authors: Aigner, August, Baier, Brem, Brunmaier, Eibel, Ferk, Gruber, Gstrein, Hackl, Hermann, Herzele, Hlawaty, Hochgatterer, Kaiser, Kerschbaumer, Klepalski, Klier, Langle, Menasse, Merkl, Mitterer, Neuwirth, Ohrt, Reichart, Schantl, Schindel, Schlag, Schoener, Schutting, Siegmund, Skwara, Steiner, Szyszkowitz, Treudl, Wager, Wenger. One section contains statements by the authors about themselves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This anthology presents an image of the Austrian people through short narrative prose works by forty of the leading modern and contemporary authors. The dimensions of being human, from the soaring heights to the abysmal depths, are most striking in the relationships of the individual to his or her surroundings. For this reason prose pieces were chosen that illustrate relationships, not only those between man and wife, man and woman, murderer and victim, father and daughter or mother and daughter, but also those between man and man, human being and God, man and city, as well as relationships between familiar and alien forms of life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.