Into the Sunset: Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose / Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology / Guilty Victims: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider...

Hacken,Richard, ed. and traps. Into the Sunset: Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1999. viii + 455 pp. $44.50 hardcover. Lorenz, Dagmar C. G., ed. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology. Series: Jewish Writing for the Contemporary World, ed. Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxxvi+ 363 pp. $25.00 paperback. Pick, Hella. Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. xv + 246 pp. $35.00 hardcover. Hussong, Martin. Der Nationalsozialismus im osterreichischen Roman 1945-- 1969. Stauffenburg Colloquium, Bd. 52. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. 158 pp. EU24,80 paperback. Daviau, Donald, G., ed. Austria in Literature. Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2000. xii + 326 pp. $35.50 hardcover. Riemer, Willy, el. After Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2000. 376 pp. $32.00 paperback In many ways, these books represent the new Austrian studies, an area of studies with its own trajectory, and one that has always conceived of itself somewhat apart from German studies. For years, the annual conferences organized by Donald Daviau at the University of California, Riverside, for the International Austrian Studies Association offered an annual showcase for the year's best in Austrian studies (principally, but not restricted to literature, film, philosophy, and history). That each year's meeting was organized around a theme tended to give these conferences a kind of coherence often lacking in professional organizations. The fruits of these collective labors often appeared in the Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association, Modern Austrian Literature, then edited by Daviau. His Ariadne Press was also responsible, with the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Institute (ACI, now the Austrian Cultural Forum), for publishing an invaluable series of reference books on Austrian authors and, up to the present, keeping a flow of translations of contemporary Austrian literature coming, each in beautiful format. The Press and the annual conference also often profited from the presence of Austrian authors, artists, and filmmakers on tour under ACI auspices. That guard has now changed, with the journal retitled Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, under the general editorship of Geoffrey C. Howes and Jacqueline Vansant, and with the conference taking other shapes. As part of this sea change, the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota has changed leadership, and a second North American center, the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies (CCAuCES) of the University of Alberta in Edmonton has been inaugurated with its own focus on Austria and Central Europe. What remains noteworthy in the up and coming scholarship in these new venues of Austrian studies is the fact that it is vibrantly interdisciplinary, and has almost always been. The books under review here represent that particular niche market of scholarship and recommend themselves as paradigmatic for what must be done to keep smaller scholarly fields alive and thriving on the public and academic stages. Two anthologies exemplify the kind of attention paid to translation within Austrian studies. Richard Hacken's Into the Sunset is a neat selection of realist prose, some familiar to the German-language canon (Stiffer, Grillparzer, Sacher-Masoch, Franzos, and EbnerEschenbach), and others significant within the specifically Austrian context (Caroline von Pichler, Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Betty Paoli, Friedrich Hahn, Leopold Kompert, Ada Christen, Ludwig Anzengruber, Peter Rosegger, and Ferdinand von Saar). The selections represent both liberal and conservative politics, within the greater scope of Austro-Hungarian realities. The translations are beautifully readable, with introductions and footnotes that are well calculated to make the texts accessible without intruding too overtly on readers. …

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