Fictions from an Orphan State: Literary Reflections of Austria Between Habsburg and Hitler

by Andrew Barker

A varied, vivid view of the literary culture of the often-neglected interwar Austrian republic.

The literary flair of fin-de-si cle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135316
• ISBN13: 9781571135315
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"