The Road to the Open (European Classics)
This fascinating novel by one of the most important authors of early modernism in Vienna tells the story of Baron Georg von Wergenthin, an almost decent, almost talented young composer, and his relationship with Anna Rosner, a middle-class girl who bears his child out of wedlock. Georg's half-hearted attempts to fill the empty vessel of his personality with his new responsibilities are portrayed against the background of his social circle, mostly young Jews from good families who all suffer in their own personal ways under the turn of the century's rising anti-Semitism. This insider's view of the decline of the tolerance fostered by 19th-century Austrian liberalism under the onslaught of one of the 20th century's most twisted passions belongs in any fiction collection.- Michael T. O'Pecko, Towson State Univ., Md.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.