The Demons (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Heimito von Doderer
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: 1926-1927 and 1955
- Setting: Vienna and its environs
- Principal Characters: Georg von Geyrenhoff, Imre von Gyurkicz, Mary K., Leonhard Kakabsa, Anna Kapsreiter, Financial Counselor Levielle, Geza von Orkay, Friederike Ruthmayr, Charlotte Von Schlaggenberg (Quapp), Kajetan von Schlaggenberg, Grete Siebenschein, Rene von Stangeler, Ruodlieb von der Vlantsch
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Folkloric or magical people, Politics, Socialism, Protests or demonstrations, Class consciousness, 1920’s, Trials, Wills, Witches or witchcraft, Austria or Austrians
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
The Novel
A retired civil servant, Section Councillor Georg von Geyrenhoff keeps a chronicle for a group called “Our Crowd,” which has come together in Vienna during the fall of 1926 and the spring of 1927. As narrator, Geyrenhoff commissions the novelist Kajetan von Schlaggenberg and the historian Rene von Stangeler to assist him in writing this diary, while numerous lesser characters become unwitting collaborators, spies, and reporters of unwitnessed events. The final report on the people and events is not issued until twenty-eight years later, in 1955.
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