PUBLISHERS OF LITERARY FICTION SINCE 1983
Translator: Mike Mitchell
Ever since the fin de siecle Austrian literature has been fertile ground for fantasy in the widest sense and the genre was taken up again by new generations after the Second World War.
The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 contains stories from authors of the 1890s (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), the years around the First World War (Kafka, Meyrink), the post-war era, when Kafka was rediscovered, (Jeannie Ebner, Ilse Aichinger) to the present day (H C Artmann, Michael Koehlmeier). The stories range from the 'freudian' to the 'kafkaesque', to the surreal, grotesque, comic, occult and straightforwardly supernatural.
A.S.Byatt described it in The Guardian as one of the best anthologies she has ever read.
RRP: £12.99
No. of pages: 416
Publication date: 26.03.2003
Re-print date: 23.06.2008
ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 903517 13 0
Ebook
978 1 907650 60 4
Rights:
Compilation and World English language in the translations.