The two stories contained in this edition - "Love at First Sight: A
Recollection" and "History of a Promise" - reveal Erich Hackl's
unique and luminous perspective on the relationship between
historical reality and literary representation. Drawing on
historical documents and authentic individuals, Hackl portrays the
inspiring lives of those who have suffered the terror and injustice
of twentieth-century fascism. Recovering from a wound sustained as
a result of his involvement with the International Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War, the Austrian Karl Sequens falls in love with
Herminia Roudiere Perpina, a strong and scrupulous Spanish woman
who cared for him in the hospital. The story of their brief but
enduring love both for each other and for social justice is
narrated through the memory of their daughter Rosa Maria in "Love
at First Sight: A Recollection". In his touching portrait of the
fate of these non-fictional individuals, Erich Hackl illuminates an
alternate perspective on Austria's position in the frenzied social
and political configurations that mark Europe from the 1920s to the
1990s.;In "History of a Promise," the mind of the septuagenarian
protagonist Willi retraces a path from his poverty in the Vienna of
the First Republic through his internment in the concentration
camps to his entrepreneurial success in his chosen South American
exile as he reveals for the first time a promise that he had made.
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