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THE LORD CHANDOS LETTER AND OTHER WRITINGS
By Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Selected and translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
Introduction by John Banville
New York: New York Reviews of Books, 2005
ISBN # 0-59017-120-9
128 pages
Comments by Bob Corbett
June 2013
This is without doubt one of the strangest books I�ve ever read from cover to cover!
When I came across the book I was fascinated since I�ve long been interested in Vienna at the turn of the century (19th/20th), but had never read anything by Hofmannsthal himself.
The last piece in the book, the only non-fiction piece, is the title piece, The Lord Chandos Letter.
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The other offerings, 13 of them, are fictional pieces, all very short and most unfinished. It would seem that Joel Rotenberg, who chose these pieces, found some previously unpublished pieces from the quite young Hofmannsthal and put this book together.
There is definitely something unsettling and disappointing in reading fictional pieces that are