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...great Far Eastern religions consider created matter, including man, so barbaric that the only hope lies in nirvana, in which the soul?unnamed, unnumbered, unidentified?achieves a blessed reunion with the cosmic spirit. The Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer expressed this Eastern anti-individualism perfectly in his novel The Demons. Looking Eastward, he mused that there "individual life does not rebel; there is too little of it for rebellion. One soul mingles with another like smoke." But in the West, "every life has its own special, if invisible, garden plot. . . . A man stands alone between the tended flower beds...
...DEMONS (1,334 pp., 2 vols.)-Heimito von Doderer-Knopf...
Vienna in the 1920s-with its coffeehouse society making a last whipped-cream stand against change, with the Franz Josef heel-clicks just receding and the Nazi jackboots faintly approaching-is both scene and protagonist of Heimito von Doderer's two-volume, half-million word novel The Demons, which was 25 years in the writing and two years in translation. The American edition contains a publisher's list of characters numbering 142, with 31 starred as principals...
...well-to-do railway building contractor, Heimito von Doderer was born and has lived most of his life in Vienna, is considered Austria's most eminent novelist. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in World War I, fought in Hitler's Luftwaffe in World War II. Of his ten books of fiction and five other works, The Demons, meticulously translated by Richard and Clara Winston, is the first to see English...