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Title

Anyone can say I : tales from the end of the post-war era / Robert Menasse ; translated [from the German] by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen ; afterword by Thomas S. Hansen.

Author

Menasse, Robert, 1954-

Publication

Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Hansen, Thomas S. (Thomas Stansfield)
• Hansen, Abby J., 1945-

Description

170 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• Robert Menasse, who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1954, speaks with the voice of the generation known as Nachgeborene (those born after). Although fortunate to have escaped the persecution and exile his parents endured, Menasse's stories constantly refract the suffering of the past through the ironic distance of a feeling observer.
• Robert Menasse, who was born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1954, speaks with the voice of the generation known as Nachgeborene ("those born after"). Although fortunate to have escaped the persecution and exile his parents endured, Menasse's stories constantly refract the suffering of the past through the ironic distance of a feeling observer. His critically humorous voice uncovers surprising truths about himself and the past. As the author of over twenty books, which include critical essays on contemporary cultural topics as well as novels and short stories, Menasse's fame as a major figure in contemporary Austrian literature is firmly established. He has received many prestigious literary prizes and divides his time between Vienna and Amsterdam.

Series Statement

Studies in Austrian literature culture and thought. Translation series

Uniform Title

• Ich kann jeder sagen. English
• Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.

Alternative Title

Ich kann jeder sagen.

Subject

Jews > Austria > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Getting started -- Long time no see -- The end of the famine winter -- The blue volumes -- Chronicle of Girardigasse -- The smell of happiness -- The American sunglasses -- Luck in Luxemburg -- Eternal youth -- Romantic blunders -- The new sorrows of the foreign friend -- Enlightenment goeth before a fall -- Dialogues with the dead: a triptych -- Finishing up.

ISBN

• 9781572411753 (alk. paper)
• 1572411759 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011004664

OCLC

701330641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library