Les Démons: D'après la chronique du chef de division Geyrenhoff

by Heimito von Doderer

2070725987 Product DEMONS. : Tome 3 Product 9782070725984 Product ID ean

Genres: Fiction

544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Heimito von Doderer lebte fast ausschließlich in Wien. 1916 geriet er in russische Gefangenschaft und kehrte erst 1920 zurück. Er studierte Geschichtswissenschaft. Seit der Veröffentlichung seiner Hauptwerke "Die Strudlhofstiege" (1951) und "Die Dämonen" (1956) gilt er als einer der bedeutendsten österreichischen Schriftsteller.

Reviews

[Jonathan yates]

This book was awesome, a pretty classic example of a book of ideas we have a really long and complicated book which seems to be written in two stages, the first 700 pages are a pretty gentle story of prewar austria, a lot of ideas and distance from what is happening at that time are expressed and then the rest is written following world war II, mr Doderer was a nazi and he's trying to express something and his style and attitudes had changed, the second part of the book was much better than the first, the second part had a lot of different styles going on, a lot of experimental parts and also he took a lot of insight from Virginia Woolf in his descriptions of people and events and i think it's cool. He uses the 1300 pages to try and describe something that happened to him, its certainly his life's work and i'd definitely read it again and recommend it! not for casual reading though, its got 40 characters some with multiple names
boo on that

[James]

I'm rereading this amazing huge novel of Vienna in the twenties: von Doderer is probably as good as Robert Musil [The Man Without Qualities:] and Proust. His quality of attention to the psychology of everyday is intense and impressive.