Late fame
By: Arthur Schnitzler ; translated from the German by Alexander Starritt ; afterword by Wilhelm Hemecker and David Österle
Contributors: Starritt, Alexander, translator
Series: New York Review Books Classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781681370842
Subjects: Fiction; Austrian Authors; Translations into English; Social life and customs
Work titles: Später Ruhm
Description: "An NYRB Classics Original One seemingly ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger arrives home to find the fulfillment of a long-forgotten wish in his sitting room: A visitor has come to tell him that the youth of Vienna have discovered his poetic genius. Saxberger has written nothing for thirty years, yet he now realizes that he is more than merely an Unremarkable Civil Servant after all: He's a Venerable Poet for whom Late Fame is inevitable--if, that is, his new acolytes are to be believed. Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most admired, provocative European writers of the twentieth century. The Nazis attempted to burn all of his work, but his archive was miraculously saved, and with it, Late Fame. Never published before, it is a treasure, a perfect satire of literary self-regard and charlatanism"--
Notes: Originally published in Vienna, Austria, by P. Zsolany in 2014 under title: Später Ruhm.