The strudlhof steps: the depth of the years - Heimito Von Doderer

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The 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.

The Strudlhof Steps 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 D�blin 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.

The Strudlhof Steps 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.