Volume 39, Number 16 · October 8, 1992
Tales from the Vienna Woods
By James Joll
Alma Mahler or the Art of Being Loved
by Françoise Giroux
Oxford University Press, 162 pp., $21.95
The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfel
by Susanne Keegan
Viking, 346 pp., $25.00
Oskar Kokoschka Letters 1905-1976
selected by Olda Kokoschka, by Alfred Marnau
Thames and Hudson, 320 pp., $40.00
Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge: An Artist and His Muse
by Wolfgang G. Fischer
Overlook, 175 pp., $50.00
The Fin-de-Siècle Culture of Adolescence
by John Neubauer
Yale University Press, 288 pp., $30.00
Do we need yet more books about Vienna in the early twentieth century? Publishers clearly think we do, for we now have two new biographies of Alma Mahler (although a perfectly adequate one was published as recently as 1983)[1] as well as a selection in English from the letters of Oskar Kokoschka (four volumes of which were published in German between 1984 and 1988), and an interesting study of the Viennese couturière Emilie Flöge and her relations with the painter Gustav Klimt, to say nothing of a book on the fin-de-siècle culture of adolescence in Vienna and elsewhere which the author himself describes as a 'large but inhomogeneous corpus…spanning a variety of ideologies, discourses, and national cultures.'
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