Die Abtei. Roman.
by Alois Brandstetter
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"The Abbey is a comic tour de force in the postmodernist mode, set in contemporary Austria. Although the ironic, idiosyncratic, and utterly irrepressible first-person narrator of Brandstetter's novel, the provincial Police Inspector Franz Einberger, would undoubtedly object vociferously to being placed in so modish a context. Einberger's tale ostensibly concerns the mysterious disappearance of the Arnulf Chalice, the ancient and irreplaceable emblem of the Abbey of Freimunster's foundation. show more It is this case that he has been called upon to investigate and report upon in detail to the Abbot, but his work as a detective, while in its own right interesting and remarkable, is only the pretext for a wide-ranging psychological and spiritual investigation of the condition of postwar Austria: its consumer society, its transformation of religion and history into tourism, and, most important, its failure to look itself squarely in the eye."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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a snark-filled Catholic rant about the apocalyptic decay of the modern world and Austria especially, as seen from the vantage point of St. Benedict's rule, told entirely in monologue without paragraphs or chapters by a classically educated police inspector come to investigate the theft of a precious chalice from the abbey to which it had been gifted in the eighth century (the last time anything good happened in the world)
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2662 .R285 .A64 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- English, German
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