Research Catalog

Title

Telegrams of the soul : selected prose of Peter Altenberg / selected, translated and with an afterword by Peter Wortsman.

Author

Altenberg, Peter, 1859-1919.

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Wortsman, Peter.

Description

147 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"A virtuoso Fin-de-Siecle Viennese innovator of what he called the "telegram style" of writing, Peter Altenberg's signature short prose straddles the line between the poetic and the prosaic, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire and the Feuilleton - a light journalistic reflection of his day - Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic that speaks with an eerie prescience to our own impatient time."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Prose works. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Prose works.

Subject

• Altenberg, Peter, 1859-1919 > Translations into English

Contents

Retrospective introduction to my book Marchen des Lebens -- A letter to Arthur Schnitzler -- On writing -- The Koberer (procurer) -- Coffeehouse -- I drink tea -- Perfume -- On smells -- Tulips -- Flower Allee -- Uncle Max -- Uncle Emmerich -- My aunt -- Career -- The bed -- Celebrity -- Poem -- Love -- Theater evening -- Poverty -- The little silk swatches -- Day of affluence -- Traveling -- In the volksgarten -- Marionette theater -- At Buffalo Bill's -- Saint Martin's Island -- The kingfisher -- The drummer Belin -- Twelve -- Seventeen to thirty -- Schubert -- Gramophone record -- A real true relationship -- The nature of friendship -- October Sunday -- Fellow man -- The reader -- Modern diogenes -- Conversation -- Albert -- The private tutor -- Conversation with Tioko -- The automaton -- Adultery -- Philosophy -- Akole -- Complications -- The novice postal clerk -- Conversation with a chambermaid -- Afternoon break -- The mouse -- The hotel room -- Elevator -- Visit -- Little things -- Idyll -- My ideals -- Peter Altenberg as collector -- On the street -- The walking stick -- A walk -- Psychology -- Discovery -- Persecution complex -- January, on the Semmering -- The steamboat landing -- In Munich -- My summer trip, 1916 -- My Gmunden -- An experience -- In a Viennese Puff -- Putain -- Human relations -- The new romanticism -- Cabaret Fledermaus -- Newsky Roussotine troop -- The interpretation -- Subjectivity -- Aphorisms -- The people don't always feel altogether social-democratic -- Big Prater swing -- Sunset in the Prater -- The night -- Sanatorium for the mentally imbalanced (but not the one in which I wiled!) -- Mood -- July Sunday -- In the Stadtpark -- A Sunday (12.29.1918) -- To make a long story short : the prose of Peter Altenberg (an afterword) -- P.S.(to P.A. from P.W.).

ISBN

0974968080 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004027895

OCLC

• ocm57068470
• SCSB-5183123

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries