Ferdinand von Saar (1833-1906) is a classic in Austria, but has been very little translated in France.
A former officer in the Austrian army, after his resignation he began writing poems and, above all, short novels, which he collected in
Nouvelles d'Italie
.
After
Le Château de Kostenitz
(Le Promeneur)
,
a funereal meditation on the end and on loss which evokes
Les Affinités electives,
and
Le Lieutenant Burda
(Bartillat), Éditions Bartillat offer us today
Histoire d'une enfant de Vienne
(1892 ).
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The structure is the same as in
Lieutenant Burda
: a narrator tells the life of a character whom he knows little at first, but whose confidant he becomes.
A confidant who does not have all the keys to his character.
He is content to reconstruct a life in which he intervened late, and which retains its mystery.
All this in the settings of imperial Vienna which are omnipresent.
We are well before the fall of 1914, but already the imperial past is fading...
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