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The Strudlhof Steps (1951)

by Heimito von Doderer

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"The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the twentieth century, a novel crowded with characters who range from an elegant, alcoholic Prussian aristocrat, to an innocent ingénue, to "respectable" shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers, bohemians, grifters, and honest working-class folk. The greatest character in the book, however, is the city of Vienna, its streets and surrounding hills and woods depicted by Heimito von Doderer with all the vividness of Joyce's Dublin or Döblin's Berlin. The novel interweaves two time periods, 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, and finds its central focus and governing metaphor in the monumental outdoor double staircase that gives the book its title. Here people of the city, with their complicated pasts and ever-changing present concerns, continually intersect and then proceed on their separate ways. The Strudlhof Steps is a masterpiece of modern Austrian literature that is at once an absorbing (and highly popular) soap opera, full of suspense and surprise, and an experimental tour de force. Vincent Kling's translation is the first into English"--… (more)
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Il fatto è che non si può far violenza a opere scritte per essere lette su una sedia a dondolo in stanze dove una pendola tranquillamente oscilla e il pulviscolo fluttua nella luce calda del sole e leggerle a bordo di un autobus... (questa la prima riflessione dopo le prime trenta deliziosamente irresolute pagine).

Conseguentemente, ho cercato di rallentare i ritmi di lettura, di aprire il libro solo quando ero sufficientemente riposato per rendere la lettura la più godibile possibile. E lo è stata, godibile, a tratti anche godibilissima. Ma facile no. E' una lettura impegnativa ma gratificante, non delude. Il tour de force è del lettore, l'autore ha piena padronanza e fila liscio che è un piacere, senza fatica, con ammirevole facilità di scrittura.
Nell'introduzione si rimanda al film di Max Ophuels La ronde. Ecco, io il film non l'ho ancora visto e mi riprometto di farlo, ma di sicuro posso dire che in effetti la narrazione ha il ritmo di un ballo. Un giro di walzer nella Vienna degli inizi del '900... ( )
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Heimito von Dodererprimary authorall editionscalculated
Juríčková, VieraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kehlmann, DanielAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Malton, LeslieNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Manteuffel, Felix vonNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Matic, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Simonischek, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Winterstein, StefanAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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IN MEMORIAM
JOHANNIS TH. JAEGER
SENATORIS VIENNENSIS
QUI SCALAM CONSTRUXIT
CUIUS NOMEN LIBELLO
INSCRIBITUR
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Wenn die Blätter auf den Stufen liegen
herbstlich atmet aus den alten Stiegen
was vor Zeiten über sie gegangen.
Mond darin sich zweie dicht umfangen
hielten, leichte Schuh und schwere Tritte,
die bemooste Vase in der Mitte
überdauert Jahre zwischen Kriegen.

Viel ist hingesunken uns zur Trauer
und das Schöne zeigt die kleinste Dauer.
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"The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the twentieth century, a novel crowded with characters who range from an elegant, alcoholic Prussian aristocrat, to an innocent ingénue, to "respectable" shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers, bohemians, grifters, and honest working-class folk. The greatest character in the book, however, is the city of Vienna, its streets and surrounding hills and woods depicted by Heimito von Doderer with all the vividness of Joyce's Dublin or Döblin's Berlin. The novel interweaves two time periods, 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, and finds its central focus and governing metaphor in the monumental outdoor double staircase that gives the book its title. Here people of the city, with their complicated pasts and ever-changing present concerns, continually intersect and then proceed on their separate ways. The Strudlhof Steps is a masterpiece of modern Austrian literature that is at once an absorbing (and highly popular) soap opera, full of suspense and surprise, and an experimental tour de force. Vincent Kling's translation is the first into English"--

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