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Вена Metropolis

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Петер Розай (р. 1946) – одна из значительных фигур современной австрийской литературы, автор более пятнадцати романов: «Кем был Эдгар Аллан?» (1977), «Отсюда – туда» (1978, рус. пер. 1982), Мужчина & женщина» (1984, рус. пер. 1994), «15 000 душ» (1985, рус. пер. 2006), «Персона» (1995), «Глобалисты» (2014), нескольких сборников прозы: «Этюд о мире без людей. – Этюд о путешествии без цели» (1993), путевых очерков: «Петербург – Париж – Токио» (2000).

Роман «Вена Metropolis» (2005) – путешествие во времени (вторая половина ХХ века), в пространстве (Вена, столица Австрии) и в судьбах населяющих этот мир людей: лицо города складывается из мозаики «обыкновенных» историй, проступает в переплетении обыденных жизненных путей персонажей, «ограниченных сроком» своих чувств, стремлений, своего земного бытия.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

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Peter Rosei

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Peter Rosei (born in Vienna on 17 June 1946) is an Austrian literary writer.

Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968. He worked for a time as the personal assistant to the Viennese painter Ernst Fuchs and then as the director of a publishing house for textbooks and nonfiction.

Since 1972 he has been a freelance writer, publishing novels, stories, essays, poetry, plays, travelogues, and children's literature. He has traveled extensively and intensively throughout the world and has been a guest writer at Oberlin College, Bowling Green State University, and the University of New Mexico at Taos, as well as guest professor at the University of Nagoya, Japan.

His literary breakthrough came with the novel Wer war Edgar Allan (Who was Edgar Allan) in 1977, which was filmed by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, with a screenplay by Rosei, in 1984. His fictional texts portray the limits of knowledge and the discrepancies between thought and action in Western society. Rosei's prolific output includes the novels Die Milchstrasse (The Milky Way, 1981), Rebus (1990), and Persona (1995), as well as a six-part novel cycle titled Das 15 000-Seelen-Projekt (The 15,000 Souls Project) from 1984-1988. In 2005 he published a panoramic novel of Vienna during the postwar period, Wien Metropolis (Metropolis Vienna).

Works that have been translated into English include Von hier nach dort (1978) (From Here to There, translated by Kathleen Thorpe, 1991), Das schnelle Glück (1980) (Try Your Luck, translated by Kathleen Thorpe, 1994), and Ruthless and Other Writings (translated by Geoffrey Howes, 2003), all published by Ariadne Press; and Wien Metropolis (2005) (Metropolis Vienna, translated by Geoffrey C. Howes, published by Green Integer in 2009).

Decorations and awards
1973: Rauris Literature Prize
1980: Literature of the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg,
1986: Elias Canetti scholarship of Vienna
1987: Literature Prize of Salzburg
1991: Austrian Prize for Literature
1993: Franz Kafka Prize
1996: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
1997: Literature Prize of Vienna
1999: Anton Wildgans Prize
2006: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class

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May 15, 2016
ROSEI, Peter: „Wien Metropolis“, Salzburg Wien 2016
Der Inhalt des Buches bietet mehr als sein Titel. Der Titel ist meiner Meinung nach zu kurz gegriffen. Er drückt nicht aus, welcher Inhalt den Leser erwartet.
Zu Beginn des Buches glaubt man es mit Kurzgeschichten zu tun zu haben, die sich erst nach und nach zu einer durchgängigen Romangeschichte entwickeln. Zwei Kärntner Buben sind so die Hauptakteure, deren Lebensweg beschrieben wird. Wie sie nach Wien ziehen und in verschiedenen sozialen Schichten untertauchen. Unterschiedliche Charaktere und Menschen aus verschiedensten Milieus treten auf. In der Zeitachse geht es von der Nachkriegszeit bis in die 90er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine schöne Beschreibung der geschichtlichen Entwicklung Österreichs an Hand von Personen.
Ein sehr zu empfehlendes Buch. Ein Schriftsteller, der sein Handwerk versteht. Nicht nur im stilistischen, sondern auch im Aufbau der Story.
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