Culture Shock! Austria - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

320 CultureShock! Austria

„ A bilingual collection of poems by this respected Austrian

poet and novelist.

Tale of the 1002nd Night. Joseph Roth. New York: Picador USA,

1999. (First published in 1939.)
      „ Written fairy-tale fashion and filled with characters from
      old Vienna—civil servants, merchants, prostitutes and
      soldiers. Yet the tale is not a happy one. Taking place in
      the 1870s, Roth’s story is a metaphor for the Austrian
      Empire’s fear of modernity and slow decline during the
      latter stages of the 19th century.

The Piano Teacher. Elfriede Jelinek. Berkeley: Grove Press, 1989.

„ A dark and disturbing story about the relationship between

a mother and daughter set in Vienna. Jelinek is a critically

acclaimed Austrian writer who won the Nobel Prize for

Literature in 2004.