The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781903517130)

Ever since the fin de siecle Austrian literature has been fertile ground for fantasy in the widest sense and the genre was taken up again by new generations after the Second World War.

The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 contains stories from authors of the 1890s (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), the years around the First World War (Kafka, Meyrink), the post-war era, when Kafka was rediscovered, (Jeannie Ebner, Ilse Aichinger) to the present day (H C Artmann, Michael Koehlmeier). The stories range from the 'freudian' to the 'kafkaesque', to the surreal, grotesque, comic, occult and straightforwardly supernatural.

A.S.Byatt described it in The Guardian as one of the best anthologies she has ever read.

Author: Mike Mitchell
ISBN-10: 1903517133
ISBN-13: 9781903517130
Publisher: Dedalus
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2003
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.04w x 1.20d