The Fly Palace

Walter Kappacher · 2009 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

In the summer of 1924 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, ageing and unable to write, retreats to the Alpine spa of Bad Fusch. Visitors and a writer's blockage fill his days. An Austrian novel of a poet's late crisis, based on the real stay.

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