UK Listings – New Books
Zemlinsky Studies
Edited by Michael Frith
Following the very successful launch on Wednesday 17 October at the Austrian Cultural Forum of this important book about the music and life of Austrian composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky – Middlesex University Press would like to offer readers of the Austrian Cultural Forum newsletter an exclusive offer.
To receive a 20% discounted price of £12 together with free postage and packing please contact Middlesex University Press on 020 8411 4164 or by visiting the website www.mupress.co.uk or in writing to Middlesex University Press, North London Business Park, Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1QS quoting ACF.
ISBN: 978 1 904750 18 5
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Steven Beller, A Concise History of Austria
Cambridge Concise Histories
Steven Beller’s gripping and comprehensive account traces the remarkable career of Austria through its many transformations, from German borderland, to dynastic enterprise, imperial house, Central European great power, failed Alpine republic, German province, and then successful Alpine republic, building up a picture of the layers of Austrian identity and heritage and their diverse sources. It is a story full of anomalies and ironies, a case study of the other side of European history, without the easy answers of more clearly national narratives, and hence far more relevant to today’s world.
ISBN-13: 9780521473057 | ISBN-10: 0521473055)
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Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig (translated by Anthea Bell)
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback choice, Guardian, 28 April 2007: “Stefan Zweig’s Amok and Other Stories confirms him as one of the masters of the short story.”
ISBN 1 901285 66 9
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Adalbert Stifter: The Bachelors (translated by David Bryer)
Victor leaves the home of his foster mother to take his first job in another town but stops on a remote island to visit his uncle who he has never met. Surrounded by an atmosphere of death and decay Victor and his uncle symbolise opposite attitudes to life and their existential effects: stillness and movement, light and dark, openness and withdrawal. Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers.
ISBN 1 901 285 70 7
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected Tales (translated by J. M. Q. Davies)
Selected Tales contains the pick of Hofmannsthal’s early novellas, including those that place him in the vanguard of Early Modernism – the terrifying Tale of the 672nd Night, the Kleistian Cavalry Tale, and the celebrated ‘philosophical epistle’ Letter from Lord Chandos. Though most of the seven tales presented in this volume have attracted a large and growing body of critical commentary, and have appeared individually in English over the past half-century, in translations of varying quality, this selection gathers them together for the first time as a group in translations that do justice to the density of these subtly nuanced texts.
ISBN: 978-0-946162-74-1