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The book presents a selection of short stories by about 15 Austrian authors, trying to show the development of Austrian short prose - from realism and naturalism through modernity and expressionism to post-war and postmodernist literature.
Joseph Fouché (1930) is a brilliant biography of a brilliant and unscrupulous opportunist – a Minister of Police who served all regimes: the Revolution, Napoleon and the Bourbons, becoming a symbol of political cunning and moral emptiness.
Paris on the eve and during World War I. Young Richard Dalleau, full of ambition and a hunger for life, embarks on a journey of success, love and moral trials that will lead him into a vortex of misfortune.
The Kaiser's Coolies (1930) is an anti-militarist novel by Theodor Plievier. Based on his own experience, it depicts the brutal life of ordinary sailors in the German navy during World War I and the sailors' mutiny of 1917.
The Black Napoleon (1931) is a fictional biography of Toussaint Louverture. It depicts the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803), the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue, Louverture's brilliant military and political rise, and his struggle against the colonial powe
Jakob Fabian, an unemployed Germanist and moralist, wanders through Berlin in the 1930s, observing the moral, political and social decay and the rise of Nazism. He falls in love with Cornelia, but tragedies and nonsense lead him to a tragic end. Criticism