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- catalog abstract ""The Abbey is a comic tour de force in the postmodernist mode, set in contemporary Austria. Although the ironic, idiosyncratic, and utterly irrepressible first-person narrator of Brandstetter's novel, the provincial Police Inspector Franz Einberger, would undoubtedly object vociferously to being placed in so modish a context. Einberger's tale ostensibly concerns the mysterious disappearance of the Arnulf Chalice, the ancient and irreplaceable emblem of the Abbey of Freimunster's foundation. It is this case that he has been called upon to investigate and report upon in detail to the Abbot, but his work as a detective, while in its own right interesting and remarkable, is only the pretext for a wide-ranging psychological and spiritual investigation of the condition of postwar Austria: its consumer society, its transformation of religion and history into tourism, and, most important, its failure to look itself squarely in the eye."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Abtei. English".
- catalog contributor b10977435.
- catalog contributor b10977436.
- catalog contributor b10977437.
- catalog coverage "Austria Politics and government 1945- Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Austria Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""The Abbey is a comic tour de force in the postmodernist mode, set in contemporary Austria. Although the ironic, idiosyncratic, and utterly irrepressible first-person narrator of Brandstetter's novel, the provincial Police Inspector Franz Einberger, would undoubtedly object vociferously to being placed in so modish a context. Einberger's tale ostensibly concerns the mysterious disappearance of the Arnulf Chalice, the ancient and irreplaceable emblem of the Abbey of Freimunster's foundation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224).".
- catalog description "It is this case that he has been called upon to investigate and report upon in detail to the Abbot, but his work as a detective, while in its own right interesting and remarkable, is only the pretext for a wide-ranging psychological and spiritual investigation of the condition of postwar Austria: its consumer society, its transformation of religion and history into tourism, and, most important, its failure to look itself squarely in the eye."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "224 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1572410450".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press,".
- catalog spatial "Austria Politics and government 1945- Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Austria Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "833/.914 21".
- catalog subject "Grail Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PT2662.R258 A6413 1998".
- catalog title "Abtei. English".
- catalog title "The abbey : a novel / Alois Brandstetter ; foreword by Alois Brandstetter ; afterword by Peter Firchow ; translated by Peter and Evelyn Firchow.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Mystery fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".