Contemporary Austrian Writings

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-1509-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band No: 74, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 378 g

Reihe: German Library

Contemporary Austrian Writings includes poetry, prose, and drama of the modern period.

- It marks the completion of The German Library in 100 volumes, a 25 year project
- Aside from publishing the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Kafka, Hesse, Brecht, Mann, Canetti, Grass, Enzensberger, and Boell (2006)--sometimes in new translations--forewords and introductions have been contributed by the likes of John Irving, E. L. Doctorow, Harold Bloom, and others
- No series of translations on this scale has ever been attempted.

This Volume 74 closes The German Library, a project that has spanned 25 years. It includes poetry, prose, and drama of the modern Austrian period primarily drawn from the magazine Dimension2. Other authors represented are Thomas Bernhard, H.C. Artmann, Ernst Jandl, Friederike Mayrocker, and others.

POETRY
H. C. Artmann, "A xunz Lamentawoe," "drei dog schoriar e.," "Rosina."
Ernst Jandl, "gut kleid," "wiedergefunden," "das bleiben," "Korrespondenz," "Rekorde"
Friederike Mayroecker, "Kindersommer," "Maria am Gestade," "Meine Mutter mid den offenen Armen," "Anrichteschrank, Stilleben am Morgen," "Seraphim, oder vor einer Reise"
Alfred Kolleritsch, "Dem Ende entgagen," "Verrit," "Sprache," "Von den Lippen," "Gedenken," "Einblick"
Michael Donhauser, "Der Pfirsich," 12 haiku, "Drei Lose," "IN den Rosenstrauch," "Abendwind"
Raoul Schrott, "Physikalische Optik II," "Eine Geschichte der Schrift IV"

PROSE
Thomas Berhnard, "Is It Comedy? Is It Tragedy?"
Barbara Frischmuth, "Salon Ramona"
Gerhard Roth [selection to be determined]
Norbert Gstrein, "The Commercial"
Robert Manasse [to be determined]
Josef Haslinger [to be determined]
Michael Scharang, "Sparrow Michelangelo"
Joseph Zoderer, "Das Schildkroetenfest"

DRAMA
Elfriede Jelinek, " Clara S."
Biographical Sketches

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Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoehr, Ingo R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

POETRY by Alfred Kolleritsch, Michael Donhauser, Raoul Schrott, Friederike Mayroecker, and others.
PLAY Clara S.by Elfriede Jelinek
PROSE by Gerhard Roth, Thomas Bernhard, Barbara Frischmuth, Norbert Gstrein, Michael Koehlmeier, Michael Scharang, Joseph Zoderer, and others.

Über Autor(innen)

Ingo Stoehr is the editor of Dimension 2.