|
|
|
|
|
Updates |
Heimito von Doderer: A Person Made of Porcelain and Other Stories
Heimito von Doderer: A Person Made of Porcelain and Other Stories. Translated by Vincent Kling (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought: Translation Series).
Ariadne Press, Riverside, California, 2005.
288 pages, paperback original.
$ 25,00
ISBN 1-57241-141-4
Doderer's enormous achievement in the novel has tended to cast his shorter fiction into the shadows, despite a number of studies over the years, including a full volume of the Doderer Society's own publications. The short pieces are especially overlooked outside the German-speaking world; this volume hopes to remedy that neglect. By turns grotesque and lyrical, outrageous and poetic, the short stories are presented here as a larger grouping for the first time in English. While not all of Doderer's short fiction could be included, this volume from Ariadne Press includes most of the short stories and all six of the pieces Doderer called "Erzaehlungen".
Table of contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Foreword: "Poetic Power" or "Utter Parochialism"?
Short, Shorter And Shortest Stories
- The Bay of Naples
- In the Maze
- A Confident Instinct
- Military Burial of a Love
- The Tattooed Lady
- Involuntary Accomplice
- Aimée
- A Snow Storm
- Bishop Gone Berserk
- A Person Made of Porcelain
- Eight Attacks of Rage
- Nine Short Short Stories
- The Family's Welfare
- The Harmhog
- The Ogre
- A Summer Morning
- Sonatina
- Kickbury
- The Buried Talent
- Black Magic
- Moving to the Garden District
- Bed and Beard
- The Bookstore Owner
- A Dance in the Café Scratchki, or Jampacked with Juveniles
- Tale
Tales
- The Torture of the Little Leather Pouches
- A Second Kratki-Baschik
- Two Lies, or Classical Tragedy in a Village
- The Last Adventure: A Tale of Knighthood
- Death of a Lady in Summer
- Under Black Stars
Afterword: The Adventure of Virtue
Society -
Updates |
Membership |
Publications
|
Forum
| Contact
Doderer -
Introduction |
Brief Bio |
Work | Research
Prize - Reviews
- Downloads -
Search - Help
- Credits