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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
December 1, 2004
Pages
128
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590171202
ISBN-10
1590171209
Dimensions
0.25 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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On Certainty/Uber Gewissheit | Fear and Trembling | Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo | The World of Yesterday | Beware of Pity | On the Abolition of All Political Parties | The Man Without Qualities | Precarious Life
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Straussâs greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected hereâfin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into Englishâpropel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.
The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.
The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.
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Paperback
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from New York Review of Books (December 1, 2004)
9781590171202 | details & prices | 128 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Straussâs greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works.
About: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Straussâs greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works.
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