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Palace of flies : a novel

Kappacher, Walter, 1938- author, Steinberg, Michael P. author of introduction, etc, Bauer, Georg translator, Kappacher, Walter, 1938- Der fliegenpalast

2022

Overview

\"This 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. The writer is plagued by feelings of loneliness and failure that echo in a buzz of inner monologues, imaginary conversations and nostalgic memories of relationships with glittering cultural figures. Palace of Flies conjures up an individual state of distress and disruption at a time of fundamental societal transformation that speaks eloquently to our own age\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Subject: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 Homes and haunts Austria Fiction / German fiction 20th century Translations into English / Austria Fiction
• ISBN: 9781954404021

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PT 2671 .A59 F5513 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE