Austro-Hungarian Fiction and Belles-Lettres
Explore a curated list of Austro-Hungarian fiction and belles-lettres, featuring classic and lesser-known works from the region's rich literary heritage. Discover timeless novels, essays, and stories that defined an era.
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The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1
by Robert Musil
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2
by Robert Musil
"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New …
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Night Games
by Arthur Schnitzler
Reinforces the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist.
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Beware of Pity
by Stefan Zweig
Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. …
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The Good Soldier Svejk
Translates the iconoclastic Czech's classic satire depicting the adventures of a soldier during the First World War
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The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War
by Jaroslav Hašek
"Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War …
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The Confusions of Young Torless
by Robert Musil
At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets —Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini—rift even further …
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Salt of the Earth
by Józef Wittlin
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. The modern …
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The Snows of Yesteryear
by Gregor von Rezzori
The Snows Of Yesteryear is an uncompromising account of Gregor von Rezzori's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II.
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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
by Gregor von Rezzori
Set in Central Europe between World Wars I and II, this work comprises five interrelated stories that depict one man's ambivalent, at times obsessive, relations …
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The Road Into the Open
by Arthur Schnitzler
"One of the most important, representative, revelatory works of Austria at the turn of the century. . . . The best English version of the …
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Embers
by Sandor Marai
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy …
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The Rebels
by Sándor Márai
The third of the rediscovered novels of the great Hungarian writer is the jolting story of a troubled group of young men on the cusp …
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the …