Malina
1971 · 283 pages
In a Vienna apartment a woman without a name loves Ivan and lives with Malina, and her interior life comes apart. Bachmann writes private ruin and Austria's buried fascism as the same catastrophe.
★ 6.1
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The World of Yesterday
1942 · 472 pages
Zweig grew up in a Vienna that believed in security, art, and progress, and lived to watch it burn twice. He mailed this memoir to his publisher the day before he killed himself.
★ 6.9