Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story
about the heart of the ice, the crystal. The charm of this
quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the
author's eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two
children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but
is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of
life and the inevitability of death. This is a wintry story of
village life in the high mountains, but also a parable of belief
and faith. The Rock Crystal of the title are shards of ice of the
glacier that dominates the landscape that Adalbert Stifter
describes. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and
Marianne Moore, Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is published by
Pushkin Press. 'A tale of almost unendurable suspense' - New York
Review of Books Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) was an Austrian
writer, painter and poet closely associated with the Biedermeier
movement in European art. Following his studies at the University
of Vienna, he was highly regarded as a tutor among aristocratic
families. The success of his first story The Condor in 1840
inaugurated a steady writing career, culminating in Der Nachsommer,
praised by Nietzsche as one of the two great novels of 19th century
Germany. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes
depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the
German-speaking world, influencing writers such as Hermann Hesse,
Thomas Mann and W.G. Sebald.
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