Robert Menasse | |
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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