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Superb article about Vienna from William Boyd, whose new novel, Waiting for Sunrise, is due out in April.“One of the amazing aspects of Vienna – or certainly the central city, the Inner Stadt bounded by the great circling boulevard of the Ring, is how easy it is to imagine living there – not just in the early years of the 20th century but in the 19th or even 18th century as well. It’s so beautifully preserved and maintained that you can turn a corner and draw up with a shock, imagining that Mozart or Brahms could have seen the identical view. But Vienna in its fading pomp, in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918), is present before you in almost every street scene or vista. Freud’s Vienna, Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Egon Schiele’s Vienna.” (via Oh, Vienna: how the city inspired William Boyd | Books | The Guardian)

Superb article about Vienna from William Boyd, whose new novel, Waiting for Sunrise, is due out in April.

“One of the amazing aspects of Vienna – or certainly the central city, the Inner Stadt bounded by the great circling boulevard of the Ring, is how easy it is to imagine living there – not just in the early years of the 20th century but in the 19th or even 18th century as well. It’s so beautifully preserved and maintained that you can turn a corner and draw up with a shock, imagining that Mozart or Brahms could have seen the identical view. But Vienna in its fading pomp, in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918), is present before you in almost every street scene or vista. Freud’s Vienna, Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Egon Schiele’s Vienna.”

(via Oh, Vienna: how the city inspired William Boyd | Books | The Guardian)

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