París alberga en su interior muchas ciudades. Y es que en los barrios de la cosmopolita Ciudad Luz se desarrollan cada día innumerables historias, vividas por personajes que habitan desde el ilustrado Montmartre hasta el medioburgués suburbio de Nogent.
Lilian Faschinger (born April 29, 1950 in Tschöran, Carinthia) is an Austrian novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary translator.
Faschinger studied literature, history, and English at the University of Graz, earning a doctorate in English literature. Her first novel Die neue Scheherazade (The New Scheherazade) attracted considerable critical recognition when it appeared in 1986. Her second novel, Lustspiel appeared in 1989, followed by two collections of short stories (Frau mit drei Flugzeugen (Woman with Three Airplanes) in 1993 and Sprünge in 1994. Her most recent novels are Magdalena Sünderin (Magdalena the Sinner, 1995) and Wiener Passion (Viennese Passion, 1999). She won international recognition with her novel, Magdalena Sünderin, (1995), which was translated into 17 languages. Her fiction includes critique of Austrian society and customs from a woman’s perspective.
In addition to fiction, Faschinger has also written and published poetry. Her translations of Gertrude Stein, Paul Bowles, and others have also earned critical acclaim.[1]