Walter Kappacher

Palace of Flies

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One of those rare biographical novels that bring a whole world to life in a way that lingers in memory.-Jay Parini, author of Borges and MeThis absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns to a summer resort outside of Salzburg that he visited as a child. But in the spa town where he once thrilled to the joys of youth, he now feels unproductive and uninspired, adrift in the modern world born after World War One. Over ten days in 1924 in a ramshackle inn that has been renamed the Grand Hotel, Hofmannsthal fruitlessly attempts to complete a play he's long been wrestling with. T… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bauer, Georg (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-954404-03-8
EAN: 9781954404038
Produktnummer: 38216704
Verlag: New Vessel Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Walter Kappacher, born in 1938, is an Austrian novelist who has won many German language literary awards including the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize. He has written short stories, novels as well as radio and screenplays, and lives near Salzburg,