Summary
Hugo von Hofmannstahl: Essays & Narrative Prose
The work of Hugo von Hofmannstahl (1874-1929) is the backbone of the literary-historical paradigm called Viennese Modern. Hofmannsthal's work seems to have been in a process of continuous transformation from the very beginning, at the same time encompassing a much wider genre and intellectual range than other writers of his time. He began his literary rise in the last decade of the 19th century as a subtle literary child prodigy, who profiled himself as an essayist, lyricist and dramatist even before adulthood, and later distinguished himself as an author of significant short stories. In the literary-historical sense, he moved somewhere between the aesthetic models of impressionism and penetrating symbolism, always with a significant critical deviation towards both of these dominant directions. In the selection for this Bosnian edition of Hofmannsthal's prose, we decided on texts that allow the reader to see the different phases of the author's creativity.
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