Books set in Austria (44)
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Reden An Den Kleinen Mann by Wilhelm Reich DE
UkraineDescription:
Listen, Little Man! (Reden An Den Kleinen Mann) is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted... continue
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Relato soñado by Arthur Schnitzler ES
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«—No te me escaparás. Tienes que llevarme.
—Pero amigo…
—Déjame a mí el resto. Ya sé que es “peligroso”… quizá sea eso lo que me atrae.»
Quien habla así es Fridolin, un joven médico vienés, acomodado, felizmente casado y padre de una niña, que durante unos carnavales se siente misteriosamente arrastrado hacia lo desconocido, un mundo a medio camino entre el sueño y la vigilia, en el que, atrapado por el deseo, vivirá experiencias de extraña y fascin... continue
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The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner EN
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Reprint of the detective novel starring Joseph Müller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police.
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The Complete Persepolis : Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi EN
IranDescription:
A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP AS A GIL IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN, PERSEPOLISE PRIVIDES A UNIQUEGLIMPLSE INTO A NEARLY UNKNOWN AND UNREACHABLE WAY OF LIFE.
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The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth EN
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The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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The Governess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig EN
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These four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig’s subject matter dating from quite early in his career as a writer of fiction (The Governess, rooted in a world of strict Edwardian morality), to late (Did He Do It?, almost an English detective story set near Bath, where Zweig lived in exile). In addition The Miracles of Life, set in 16th-century Antwerp during the time of Protestant iconoclasm, and Downfall of a Heart both address the theme of anti-Semitism. Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Mon... continue
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The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek EN
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The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising."
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The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth EN
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Written through the stories of three generations of the Trotta family, The Radetzky March is a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its eventual collapse. This is Joseph Roth's most famous and most acclaimed novel.
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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.