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Robert Menasse was born in 1954 in
Vienna. After receiving degrees in German Literature, philosophy and political
science at universities in Vienna and Salzburg, he established himself in his
native Austria and Germany as one of the major novelists and literary critics
of his generation. “To become an artist is a good option when you discover
relatively early in life that you are extremely neurotic, extremely broken
down, destroyed, looking for the possibility where your creative fantasies and
destructive qualities can generate minimal privileges as compensation.” His
works include a trilogy Wings of Stone,
Meaningful Certainty and Reverse Thrust, and several collections
of philosophical and socio-political essays, most recently Dullness is Kin to Power. His latest novel The Expulsion from Hell
will be published next autumn. Robert Menasse lives in Vienna.
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