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Ironists of a Vanished Empire
In “Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire,” Marjorie Perloff returns to the world of her birth. She engages in a close reading of six major post-imperial Austrian writers, making the case for the existence of a distinctive and valuable tradition of “Austro-Modernism.” By Adam Kirsch.
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As a resident of ex-Austria-Hungary and half Jewish I am always glad to see essays on that strange period - Franz Joseph I and his wife Sisi are protagonists in my blog under construction too (Wittgenstein, Canetti, Musil and the rest mentioned int he article are my favorites too.)