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Kling Vincent - The Strudlhof Steps The Depth Of The Years - Paperback
Kling Vincent - The Strudlhof Steps The Depth Of The Years - Paperback
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Description: The first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early - twentieth - century Vienna as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters. The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the early twentieth century a vast novel crowded with characters ranging from an elegant alcoholic Prussian aristocrat to an innocent ingenue to respectable shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers bohemians grifters and honest working - class folk. The greatest character in the book however is Vienna which Heimito von Doderer renders as distinctly as James Joyce does Dublin or Alfred D blin does Berlin. Interweaving two time periods 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, the novel takes the monumental eponymous outdoor double staircase as a governing metaphor for its characters intersecting and diverging fates. The Strudlhof Steps is an experimental tour de force with the suspense and surprise of a soap opera. Here Doderer illuminates the darkness of passing years with the dazzling extravagance that is uniquely his.
Title: The Strudlhof Steps The Depth Of The Years
Author(s): Kling Vincent
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375274
Pages: 800 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: The first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early - twentieth - century Vienna as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters. The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the early twentieth century a vast novel crowded with characters ranging from an elegant alcoholic Prussian aristocrat to an innocent ingenue to respectable shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers bohemians grifters and honest working - class folk. The greatest character in the book however is Vienna which Heimito von Doderer renders as distinctly as James Joyce does Dublin or Alfred D blin does Berlin. Interweaving two time periods 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, the novel takes the monumental eponymous outdoor double staircase as a governing metaphor for its characters intersecting and diverging fates. The Strudlhof Steps is an experimental tour de force with the suspense and surprise of a soap opera. Here Doderer illuminates the darkness of passing years with the dazzling extravagance that is uniquely his.
Title: The Strudlhof Steps The Depth Of The Years
Author(s): Kling Vincent
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375274
Pages: 800 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
Category: Classic Fiction
