Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

by Marjorie Perloff

Book Overview

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that would last only twenty years before being annexed by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022605442X
• ISBN13: 9780226054421
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"