Dlb 85: Austrian Fiction Writers After 1914

By: Mary Bruccoli

World War I marked the close of an era for the vast, powerful and diverse Austro-Hungarian empire. By the end of the war, a population of nearly fifty million people had been reduced to fewer than eight million. Writers of the early postwar period tended to be nostalgic for Austrias former imperial greatness. Then, when Hitler unified Austria and Germany in 1938, many Austrian writers were driven into exile. And as Austria rose from defeat to become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810345633
• ISBN13: 9780810345638
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 394 Pages