Word: domanig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PETER DOMANIG - Victor White - Bobbs-Merrill...
...massive novels were launched with a publicity salute of all but invasion intensity. William Cameron's The Day is Coming (573 pages about working-class life in England from 1887 to 1939) was blurbed as "the sort of novel Dickens might have written." Victor White's Peter Domanig (704 pages about working-class life in Vienna from 1905 to 1920) was called "one of the classics of aoth Century literature." All such extravagances aside, one fact was plain: both novels were solidly based on the bitter, intense, personal histories of their respective authors...
Dirt and Dreams. Author White's hero, Peter Domanig, was also raised by Austrian foster parents in Vienna. His birth certificate read: "FATHER: Information refused . . . STATUS: Illegitimate." Barked his foster mother: "[We] found you . . . crawling around in the dirt. . . ." Sometimes his real mother wrote little Peter from the U.S., whither she had decamped after he was born. He did not know who his father...