{"product_id":"the-strudlhof-steps-the-depth-of-the-years-paperback","title":"The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeimito Von Doderer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVincent Kling\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Kehlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early-twentieth-century Vienna, as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Strudlhof Steps\u003c\/i\u003e is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the early twentieth century, a vast novel crowded with characters ranging from an elegant, alcoholic Prussian aristocrat to an innocent ingenue to \"respectable\" shopkeepers and tireless sexual adventurers, bohemians, grifters, and honest working-class folk. The greatest character in the book, however, is Vienna, which Heimito von Doderer renders as distinctly as James Joyce does Dublin or Alfred Döblin does Berlin. Interweaving two time periods, 1908 to 1911 and 1923 to 1925, the novel takes the monumental eponymous outdoor double staircase as a governing metaphor for its characters' intersecting and diverging fates. \u003ci\u003eThe Strudlhof Steps\u003c\/i\u003e is an experimental tour de force with the suspense and surprise of a soap opera. Here Doderer illuminates the darkness of passing years with the dazzling extravagance that is uniquely his.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeimito von Doderer\u003c\/b\u003e (1896-1966), who was born in Vienna, Austria, received the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and began to write during the years he spent as a prisoner of war in Siberia, eventually fleeing and returning to Vienna by foot. His novels \u003ci\u003eThe Strudlhof Steps\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Demons\u003c\/i\u003e brought him international recognition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Kehlmann\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eTyll\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. He lives in New York, NY. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVincent Kling\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator and scholar of German literature who teaches at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has translated fiction, poetry, and criticism by Heimito von Doderer, Heimrad Bäcker, Andreas Pittler, Gert Jonke, Gerhard Fritsch, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Aglaja Veteranyi. He was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2013 for his translation of Veteranyi's \u003ci\u003eWhy the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 864\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47396504895666,"sku":"9781681375274","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/91521a945c29ac6f5fccbf5063e97b80.webp?v=1778009146","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-strudlhof-steps-the-depth-of-the-years-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}