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Product Identifiers
PublisherDedalus Books The Limited
ISBN-101903517133
ISBN-139781903517130
eBay Product ID (ePID)2444497
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy : 1890-2000
Number of Pages401 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEuropean / German, Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, European / General
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorMike Mitchell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-426492
SynopsisEver 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPT1340.F35
