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Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important
writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator
on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten"
has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric
poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays.
"The Whole Difference," which includes new translations as well as
classic ones long out of print, is a fresh introduction to the
enormous range of this extraordinary artist, and the most
comprehensive collection of Hofmannsthal's writings in English.
Selected and edited by the poet and librettist J. D. McClatchy,
this collection includes early lyric poems; short prose works,
including "The Tale of Night Six Hundred and Seventy-Two," "A Tale
of the Cavalry," and the famous "Letter of Lord Chandos"; two
full-length plays, "The Difficult Man" and "The Tower"; as well as
the first act of "The Cavalier of the Rose." From the glittering
salons of imperial Vienna to the bloodied ruins of Europe after the
Great War, the landscape of Hofmannsthal's world stretches across
the extremes of experience. This collection reflects those
extremes, including both the sparkling social comedy of "the
difficult man" Hans Karl, so sensitive that he cannot choose
between the two women he loves, and the haunting fictional letter
to Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he can no
longer write. Complete with an introduction by McClatchy, this
collection reveals an artist whose unusual subtlety and depth will
enthrall readers.
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Reitergeschichte
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright,
and as the librettist for Richard Strauss's greatest operas, but he
was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative
prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected
here--fin-de-siecle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud,
a number of them never before translated into English--propel the
reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An
aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of
passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double
on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with
his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his
destiny.
The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title
story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon
in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write.
The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from
poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language
which was to define the twentieth century.
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Die Frau im Fenster
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Gedichte
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Electra (Hardcover)
Arthur Symons, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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R803
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Electra (Paperback)
Arthur Symons, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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R429
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Playing With Love (Liebelei)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, P. Morton Shand
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R831
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The Legend Of Joseph (Hardcover)
Harry Kessler (Graf), Richard Strauss; Created by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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R801
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