The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of
the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as
a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not
received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One
distinguished literary scholar of his generation called
Hofmannsthal a "spiritual-moral authority" of a kind German culture
had only rarely produced. This volume provides translations of
essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive
position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism
and peoples to the East, whether in the Habsburg Monarchy or beyond
it, as well as essays that locate Hofmannsthal's thinking about
Austria in relation to the broader situation of German and European
culture. "It is the true accomplishment of this translation that
Hofmannsthal's language, recreated in a clear and elegant English,
regains its melody of an earlier time. If there ever was a
captivating documentation of the European potential of Austria
beyond the stereotypes of "Vienna at 1900," it has been brought
together in this volume of essays that responded to the tragic
challenges of World War I in a constructive way." Frank Trommler,
University of Pennsylvania
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