"Lorchenkov's novel reflects the situation in his home country like a funhouse mirror, making the reader laugh and shudder, often at the same time."
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Bookslut
“In this elaborate, intellectual portrait of the collapsed Austro-Hungarian empire, Hugo von Hofmannsthal emerges as a man whose accomplishments and eloquence have left him utterly unprepared for the desolation of history. A meditation on the artist’s struggle to bring to life one’s own age, even as that age dissolves, and to make use of time as time makes use of us. A beautiful book.”
Adam Klein, author of The Medicine Burns and Tiny Ladies