- The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000

by Mike Mitchell (Editor)

Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

833.0876608

Collection

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

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