The Vienna Paradox (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marjorie Perloff
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Vienna, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles
- Principal Characters: Marjorie Perloff, Maximilian Mintz, Richard Schuller, J. Craig LaDriere
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Ethnic groups, Jews or Jewish life, Nazism or Nazis, Austria or Austrians, Learning or scholarship, Vienna, Arts or crafts
- Locales: New York, Los Angeles, CA, Washington, D.C., Vienna, Austria
When Marjorie Perloff announced that she was engaged in a memoir dealing with her Austrian past, it seemed to represent a departure from her usual writing, which consists largely of theoretical and revisionist interpretations of modern poetry ranging from the works of William Butler Yeats to Frank O’Hara. Perhaps Perloff's crowning achievement as a literary critic and historian is Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996), in which she makes a strong case for a connection between the questions Ludwig Wittgenstein posed concerning language...
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