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Category Archives: Books by Austrian writers
Without Waking Up by Carolina Schutti, translated by Deirdre McMahon.
This novel by Austrian writer Caroline Schutti won the European Prize for Literature 2015 and has just now been published in English translation. It’s the story of Maja, brought up by a taciturn great-aunt in a rural village in some … Continue reading
Lionheart- Loewenherz- by Monika Helfer
What a pleasure to reconnect with the world of Monika Helfer and die Bagage- the riff-raff. Löwenherz, Lionheart, is the final novel in Monika Helfer’s family story. The trilogy starts, in die Bagage, with her grandmother, then goes on to … Continue reading
Posted in Books by Austrian writers, Books in German, Memoir
Tagged Die Bagage, Loewenherz, Monika Helfer, Vati
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Dunkelblum by Eva Menasse- unearthing secrets in Austrias’ borderlands
This huge novel by Eva Menasse is a stunning tour de force. Set in the summer of 1989, the novel takes place in Dunkelblum, a village on the eastern border of Austria. The village and its residents hold dark secrets, … Continue reading
Posted in Books by Austrian writers, Books in German, Uncategorized
Tagged Dunkelblum, Eva Menasse
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German Literature Month X11 is nearly here!
It’s the end of October and German Literature Month XII is happily almost upon us. Now, though I may be tardy in setting out my reading stall, I have in fact been mulling over my selected reads for a little … Continue reading
Posted in Books by Austrian writers, Books in German, Books in Translation, Books on Ukraine, Literary Events, Memoir, Uncategorized
Tagged Angel Classics, die Dreigroschenoper, Dunkelblum, EIn simpler Eingriff, German Literature Month X11, Grieshus, In einer Nacht woanders, Kassandra, Ueber Menschen, Vielleicht Esther
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Vati- Daddy- by Monika Helfer
Vati, by Austrian writer Monika Helfer, follows on from her novel die Bagage, The Riff-Raff, which is an imaginative reconstruction of her grandmother’s life in rural Austria during the First World War. This time, Monika Helfer turns her attention to … Continue reading
Posted in Books by Austrian writers, Books in German, Memoir, Uncategorized, Working Class Voices
Tagged Monika Helfer, Vati
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Die Bagage- The Riff-Raff- by Monika Helfer
This is the story of Maria Moosbrugger, a young Austrian woman, married with 4 children living in a rural community in Austria at the outbreak of the First World War. We’re told early on that Maria is the writer’s grandmother: … Continue reading
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Tagged Die Bagage, Monika Helfer
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Unter der Drachenwand by Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger, much praised for his moving memoir of his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s, has now written a book on a much larger canvas: Unter der Drachenwand, Under the Drachenwand, set in 1944 in the last year of the Second … Continue reading
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Tagged Arno Geiger, Unter der Drachenwand
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Geistergeschichte- Ghost Story- by Laura Freudenthaler
The Austrian writer Laura Freudenthaler has just been awarded a European Literature Prize 2019 for Geistergeschichte. This slim, subtle, novel is not a ghost story in a conventional sense, but rather a study of a middle aged woman losing her … Continue reading
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Tagged Geistergeschichte, Laura Freudenthaler
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The Radetzky March German Lit Readalong- Part Three
I finished the novel yesterday and here are my responses to the Part Three questions: There seems to be only one true and honest relationship in this novel- the friendship between district administrator von Trotta and doctor Skowronnek. Would you … Continue reading
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