After the first world war Austria lost its vast multinational empire and became a tiny Alpine German-speaking republic. Today it has just 9m people. But the country has continued to shine culturally
of the 20th century Vienna, then the capital of the imperial dual monarchy, was arguably the cultural capital of the world. The last two decades of the Habsburg empire produced a flowering of music , painting , architecture , psychoanalysis and literature .
, “red on the outside, brown on the inside and always a little drunk”, goes a remark that is often attributed, perhaps falsely, to Thomas Bernhard, an acerbic playwright and novelist born in 1931. Our Germany correspondent picks four books and two plays that show both the dazzling and dark sides of Austria’s cultural history and why it has been so influential.University of Nebraska Press; 472 pages, $24.95. Pushkin Press; £12.
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