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Selected Prose

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The description for this book, Hugo Von Selected Works, Volume 1: Selected Prose, will be forthcoming.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published December 12, 1952

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal established his reputation with lyric poems and a number of plays, including Yesterday (1891) and Death and the Fool (1893).

This Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist flourished.

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Hofmannsthal uses dreams, feelings, impressions to evoke a poetic, mystical reality. Highlights (excluding those also in the NYRB collection): Fear, Greece.
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