"Kappacher’s sensitive channeling of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s voice and sensibility illuminates the difficulties of a creative mind to come to terms with a radically changing world. Michael P. Steinberg’s brilliantly concise introduction anchors the kaleidoscopic glimmer of the author’s memories in the turmoil of the first quarter of the twentieth century."
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Gitta Honegger, author of Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian and translator of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek