| Description |
908 p. 21 cm. |
| Summary |
The Strudlhofstiege is a social and urban novel about Vienna in the period 1923-1925 with flashbacks mainly to the summers of 1910 and 1911. The plot consists of a multitude of cleverly intertwined narrative strands broken up by leaps in time, difficult to grasp at first reading. The book is held together by an astonishing unity of the place : Most of the scenes take place in a narrowly limited space within the 9th district of Vienna, Alsergrund, between Althanplatz (today Julius-Tandler-Platz) at Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof (opposite in the book Viennese custom called "Bohmischer Bahnhof") and the Schottentor; decisive encounters take place on the Strudlhofstiege, which connects Liechtensteinstrasse with the higher Waisenhausgasse (since 1913 Boltzmanngasse), the seat of the kuk consular academy. Flashbacks and memories lead to the area of the Rax (Prein, Reichenau), to Vienna's suburbs and various cities of the Danube monarchy (including Bosnia). |
| Added Title |
Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre |
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