Books set in Austria (61)
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The Radetzky March : Introduction by Alan Bance by Joseph Roth EN
AustriaDescription:
By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize.
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The Thirtieth Year : Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann EN
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Collection of seven short stories. Orig. pub. in Austria in 1961.
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The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler EN
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'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.' Daily MailWhen seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will soon be supplying the great and good of Vienna with their newspapers and cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, who... continue
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The Wall by Marlen Haushofer EN
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A middle-aged woman awakens to find she is the last living person on Earth after a nuclear apocalypse, and, accompanied by her dog, begins the process of survival and self-renewal.
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Stefan Zweig EN
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole... continue
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Toda una vida by Robert Seethaler ES
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Hasta una perdida aldea centroeuropea, en un remoto rincn̤ alpino, llega a principios del siglo XX el pequeǫ Andreas Egger con apenas cuatro aǫs, abandonado por su madre. El niǫ crece sometido a la fřrea disciplina de su to̕, y su horizonte se agota en la cadena de enormes montaąs que rodean el valle. As,̕ entre esas cimas, la vida de Andreas discurre entre la rudeza del entorno y una forzosa adaptacin̤ a los cambios que impone el progreso. Una fb̀ula sobre el sentido y el sinsentido de la existencia. Las pulsiones bs̀icas del ser humano, la generosidad y el egos̕mo, el amor y la muerte, son l... continue
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Verwirrung der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig DE
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»Wir erleben Myriaden Sekunden, und doch wird’s immer nur eine, eine einzige, die unsere ganze innere Welt in Wallung bringt« – und es ist jene Sekunde, an die sich der 60-jährige Englischprofessor erinnert, als er die ihm gewidmete Festschrift durchsieht, in der so viele Namen stehen, aber der eine fehlt: der Name jenes Mannes, der sein Schicksal bestimmte. Die Erinnerung ruft ihn in seine Jugend zurück, in seine Studienzeit, als eine brillante Vorlesung seine Leidenschaft für das Lernen weckte – und eine eigentümliche Faszination für den... continue
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Walking : A Novella by Thomas Bernhard EN
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"Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad."--Amazon.com.
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Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
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Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenz... continue
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Yellow Street : A Novel in Five Scenes by Veza Canetti EN
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Ironically depicts the lives of leather-merchants in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna and the despair, poverty, and declining moral values of the 1930s.