AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, November 1st, 2007
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected Tales. Translated with introduction and notes by J. M. Q. Davies. London: Angel Books, 2007.
This selection of seven short stories provides an excellent introduction to the early works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Hofmannsthal, whose symbolist style and cosmopolitan background made him the central representative of fin de siecle Viennese literature in the 1950s and 1960s, later slipped under the radar of both translators and scholars. At a time when Arthur Schnitzler was finally recognised for his acute but stylized observations of Austrian imperial society, the s...
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