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The demons

Title: The demons / Heimito von Doderer, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
Author: Doderer, Heimito von, 1896-1966.
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

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2 volumes (1334 pages); 22 cm.

Summary

Heimito von Doderer was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished Austrian novelists. His finest novel is The Demons, a monumental work and itself the 'Götterdämmerung' as it were to earlier novels. The central preoccupation of this masterpiece is the decline of European civilization. He began work on it in 1931, after reading Dostoyevsky's The Devils. Symphonic in construction, it is a panoramic re-creation of Viennese society in all its strata, conjuring the depths as well as the heights of everything we might think of as Vienna. Doderer has Balzacian scope as well as owing much to Proust and Musil. His human comedy is drawn with a humour as vital when ironic as when satirical, and his baroque imagination is well served by his tireless linguistic ingenuity.

Series Statement

Borzoi books

Uniform Title

Dämonen. English
Borzoi book.

Alternative Title

Dämonen.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fictional Work
Austrian fiction.
Novels
Fiction
Translations
Novels.
Austrian fiction
Romans.

Note

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

LCCN

61009234

OCLC

ocm00888418
888418
SCSB-970722

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library