Austrian Fiction in Translation

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The Director by Daniel Kehlmann (transl. Ross Benjamin): In a bind

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I’ve read all six of Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s novels and reviewed four on here, each of them very different from the others. The Director tells the story of film director G. W. Pabst who found himself trapped after the annexation of Austria, apparently with no choice but to produce films for Goebbels’s Ministry of […]

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The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler (transl. Katy Derbyshire): Everyday life writ large

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This is the fourth novel by Robert Seethaler I’ve reviewed on here. The first was A Whole Life which sees a man lead a simple yet rich life, leaving his alpine valley just once. After that I snapped up both The Tobacconist and The Field as soon as they appeared. All offer a slice of

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