Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394505961 (0394505964)
Publish date: December 12th 1979
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (NY)
Pages no: 411
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Art,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
European History,
Art History,
Germany
I found this book quite off-putting, and though the author is enormously learned, I feel the book is somewhat overrated. I ended up skimming vast tracts of it (hence the category: i-get-the-picture instead of 'read')... and this, after several failed attempts even at starting it.Part of the problem...
This reads more like a collection of topical essays than a book -- because, in fact, it was precisely that. The chapters were written as individual studies, not all at the same time, and later compiled into this book. As a result it is not always intellectually smooth, but many of the chapters are b...
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