Springtime on the Via Condotti
By: Ernst Gustav ; translated and with an afterword by Todd C. Hanlin.
Contributors: Hanlin, Todd C.
Series: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Publisher: Ariadne Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Riverside, Calif
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Frühling in der Via Condotti
Number of pages: 131
Description: Gustav Ernst's short novel, Springtime on the Via Condotti, is a humorous treatise on modern love. On their Roman honeymoon Walter and Marianne Guschelbauer, in the flush of new beginnings (and a great deal of wine), vowed undying love at a particularly romantic moment overlooking the Eternal City. They also made specific promises which neither would forget - and which they would subsequently use to judge the success or failure of their marriage.

Twenty years later they attempt to recapture their love with a return trip to Rome, the site of that honeymoon and the promises they made one special evening.