Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal
Moravian village. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is
Austria's most important nineteenth-century woman writer, but her
works have remained largely unknown to English speakers, even her
most important, the compelling Their Pavel, firstpublished serially
in 1887. Based on a true incident, Their Pavel investigates the
troubled social relations of a Moravian village that is endowed
with the right of local governance but steeped in the habits of its
feudalrelationship to the local barony. The novel explores the
parallel fates of the children of a hanged murderer and thief.
Milada, the appealing and alert daughter, is adopted on a whim by
the aging baroness, while Pavel, the awkwardand taciturn son, is
thrown upon the uncertain mercy of the village, but both suffer the
stigma of their father's crime. In her sometimes grimly humorous
picture of village life, the author spares neither the Catholic
Church northe landed aristocracy nor the villagers themselves.
Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities in the Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures at Washington Universityin St. Louis.
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