Volume 2, Number 8 · May 28, 1964
New European Fiction
By Stanley Kauffmann
The Thirtieth Year
by Ingeborg Bachmann
Knopf, 187 pp., $4.95
Every Man a Murderer
by Heimito Von Doderer
Knopf, 373 pp., $5.95
Auto-da-fe
by Elias Canetti
Stein and Day, 464 pp., $5.95
The Long Voyage
by Jorge Semprun
Grove, 236 pp., $4.50
Three of the four works of fiction considered here are of Austrian origin. (It is curious that, in the spate of books, articles, whole issues of magazines, dealing with change or non-change in Germany, so little attention goes to Austria, which, in this century, is second only to Germany as West European agent of disruption.) Pre-eminent is a collection of seven stories by Ingeborg Bachmann, two of which examine the aftermath of the Second War, one of them in the particular muted voice of those who were children during the early Forties, who came later to realization of what it was they had lived through in those days of hugger-mugger above their heads and behind doors.
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