The Dedalus/Ariadne Book of Austrian Fantasy: The Meyrink Years 1890-1930
by Mike Mitchell (Editor)
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This is one of the best anthologies - as an anthology - I have ever read. It now has 43 tales in it, all of them exciting, all beautifully translated, ranging from the Austro-Hungarian decadence to modern science fiction. It also has an excellent introduction, describing the particular qualities of Austrian - as opposed to German, or any other - literatures. The Austro-Hungarian empire before the second world war was elegant, frivolous, possessed by baroque images of death and dissolution, show more full of witty sidelong comments on ossified political structures, in the form of bureaucracies and castles. Both of these were explored by Kafka, who is central to this anthology, in that there are three tales by him, and his rediscovery after the Nazi period has been a dominant and clearly benign influence on modern Austrian writing. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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- 833.08766 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction Fiction of specific media, scope, kinds {only by more than one author} Specific kinds of fiction Adventure fiction Science and fantasy fiction, alternative histories Fantasy fiction
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- PT3826 .F2 .D4 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
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