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...Died. Heimito von Doderer, 70, Austria's most formidable novelist, whose widely praised The Demons, a 1,334-page epic 25 years in the writing of Vienna's whipped-cream and coffee-house society in the late 1920s, introduced him to the English-speaking world in 1961, after which two more (Every Man a Murderer, The Waterfalls of Slunj) of his many novels were translated into English, but neither so successfully; following abdominal surgery; in Vienna...
...WATERFALLS OF SLUNJ by Heimito von Doderer. 375 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic. The author...
EVERY MAN A MURDERER by Heimito von Doderer. 373 pages. Knopf...
...novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar. In their opulent detail, his scenes suggest those leisurely Victorian sagas in which the reader can hardly see the plot for the potted ferns. Beneath the surface clutter, however, a psychological novelist of power and perception is at work...