Doderer's Viennese epic finally arrives in French
First published in Austria in 1951, Heimito von Doderer's novel "Die Strudlhofstiege" has received its first French translation, according to Le Monde.
"L'Escalier du Strudlhof", the French title now given to Heimito von Doderer's 1951 novel, has appeared in translation for the first time, Le Monde reports. The book is described by the newspaper as a vast portrait of the Viennese soul, a novel-world built around the city and its characters.
According to Le Monde, the work's path to publication was not straightforward. After the war, the Austrian writer's compromising ties to Nazism led to a ban on the book's release. It eventually appeared in Austria in 1951, but, per the same source, French readers have had to wait until now for a translation.
Le Monde gives no further detail on the translator, the publisher, or the circumstances of this delayed French edition.
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