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This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle (quite the opposite from Sun & Moon's recent von Doderer novel, The Merowingians), whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.
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The Eridanos Library - 6: The Waterfalls of Slunj, Heimito von Doderer, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser
- Language
- Released
- 1987
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €21.14
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- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Eridanos Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 406
- ISBN10
- 0941419118
- ISBN13
- 9780941419116
- Series
- Roman No. 7
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, German Literature, 20th century, Austria, Vienna, Austrian Literature
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
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- This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle (quite the opposite from Sun & Moon's recent von Doderer novel, The Merowingians), whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.