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Available
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Publication
Dedalus (2003), Edition: Expanded, Paperback, 421 pages
Description
Ever since the fin de siecle Austrian literature has been fertile ground for fantasy in the widest sense and the genre was taken up again by new generations after the Second World War. The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 contains stories from authors of the 1890s (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), the years around the First World War (Kafka, Meyrink), the post-war era, when Kafka was rediscovered, (Jeannie Ebner, Ilse Aichinger) to the present day (H C Artmann, Michael Koehlmeier). The stories range from the 'freudian' to the 'kafkaesque', to the surreal, grotesque, comic, occult and straightforwardly supernatural. A.S.Byatt described it in The Guardian as one of the best anthologies she has ever read.
User reviews
LibraryThing member MarthaJeanne
The stories were mostly morbid. A few I would classify as macabre. Some were merely wierd, and almost enjoyable. I really liked 'The trouble with Time Travel' by Martin Auer.
Language
Original language
German
Original publication date
2003
Physical description
421 p.; 4.96 inches
ISBN
1903517133 / 9781903517130