The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight, and Exile - Softcover

Hofmann, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385239750 ISBN 13: 9780385239752

Publisher: Anchor, 1989

Synopsis

Traces the history of Vienna from its glory as a cultural center in the eighteenth century to its present decline and discusses important figures who have become part of Vienna's history, including Mozart, Freud, Hitler, and Kurt Waldheim

About this title

From Library Journal:

Hofmann, a former New York Times bureau chief in Rome, has written a penetrating, engaging, vivid cultural history of his native Vienna, covering 2000 years and focusing mainly on the fame, foibles, and fortunes of its cultural elitein music, art, and literature, architecture and psychology. Hofmann limns the ambivalent tone of Viennese high society, with its gaiety and extraordinary talent, punctuated by depression, decadence, and intrigue. His book evocatively captures the neurotic soul of a city which repeatedly produced human genius and yet was so enthusiastically won over to Nazism. Illuminating; heartily recommended for students of European history and culture. Benny Kraut, Univ . of Cincinnati
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Hofmann writes of his native Vienna with the ambivalence he informs us is typical of the Viennese, who have always had a love/hate relationship with their home. "Although the author does not delve deeply into the psychology of the Viennese neurosis, he describes candidly the people of this city from the golden days of the Baroque era to the present," said PW.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385239750
• ISBN 13: 9780385239752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346