Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Marjorie Perloff

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss...

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