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The Waterfalls of Slunj

Heimito von Doderer

4.1/5 ( ratings)

This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle , whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.

Language: English

Pages: 406

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Eridanos Press

Release: May 12, 1987

ISBN: 0941419118

ISBN 13: 9780941419116

The Waterfalls of Slunj

Heimito von Doderer

4.1/5 ( ratings)

This book, the final and most mature work of the great Austrian novelist, revolves around the father and son team of English industrialists, Robert and Donald Clayton. The Claytons open a branch office of their business in Vienna, the center of that incredibly varied and complex universe that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Their ensuing social and personal entanglements furnish the materials of a superbly civilized family chronicle , whose central symbol is a gigantic, thundering mass of water -- a force that may be life-giving or terribly destructive. Beneath a staunchly bourgeois surface, von Doderer's story telling is heavily tinged with ironic social commentary and suffused with acute, post-Freudian psychology.

Language: English

Pages: 406

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Eridanos Press

Release: May 12, 1987

ISBN: 0941419118

ISBN 13: 9780941419116

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