The Waterfalls of Slunj

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The Waterfalls of Slunj This is the final, most mature work, of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century and a major milestone in modern German literature. The novel revolves around a fatherand-son team of English industrialists: Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering, mass of water-a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Monica Bachler, the woman for whose love father and son compete; Chwostik, the Deputy Director of Clayton 8c Powers and former apartment subletter of the two charming prostitutes Fini and Feverl; Zdenko, a bright student who perceives the decline of the world he is living in, are just some of the character« in the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Waterfalls of Slunj This is the final, most mature work, of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century and a major milestone in modern German literature. The novel revolves around a fatherand-son team of English industrialists: Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering, mass of water-a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Monica Bachler, the woman for whose love father and son compete; Chwostik, the Deputy Director of Clayton 8c Powers and former apartment subletter of the two charming prostitutes Fini and Feverl; Zdenko, a bright student who perceives the decline of the world he is living in, are just some of the character« in the vast spiderweb that constitutes this novel. Like Musil, Kafka, Broch, and other literary colleagues, Von Doderer brought a very modern spirit to the panoramic conventions of nineteenth-century narrative. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, his storytelling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology. Vissza