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This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle (quite the opposite from Sun & Moon's recent von Doderer novel, The Merowingians), whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.
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The Eridanos Library - 6: The Waterfalls of Slunj, Heimito von Doderer, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1987
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Abîmé
- Prix
- 21,14 €
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Éditeur
- Eridanos Press
- Publié
- 1987
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 406
- ISBN10
- 0941419118
- ISBN13
- 9780941419116
- Séries
- Roman N° 7
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Littérature allemande, 20e siècle, Autriche, Vienne, Littérature autrichienne
- Évaluation
- 3,95 sur 5
- Description
- This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle (quite the opposite from Sun & Moon's recent von Doderer novel, The Merowingians), whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.