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"If it be permitted to speak of ‘love at first sound,’ then that’s what I experienced in my first encounter with this poet of prose." So said Thomas Mann of the work of PeterAltenberg. A virtuoso Fin-de-Siècle Viennese innovator of what he called the "telegram style" of writing, Altenberg’s signature short prose straddles the line between the poetic and the prosaic, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire and the Feuilleton—

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Author

Peter Altenberg, Peter Wortsman

Publisher

Archipelago Books ; Distributed by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780974968087

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.93 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13