Grillparzer

Apart from Hitchhiker's, David Barnett's choices (links at Guardian post) are: Necromonicon (H.P. Lovecraft); the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges; books in the library described in The Abortion: a historical romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan; The Pension Grillparzer from The World According to Garp (I thought John Irving pretty much did write that in reality, in a subsequent novel); and The Blind Assassin by 'Laura Chase' (Margaret Atwood).

Reading Maxine 2009

Apart from Hitchhiker's, David Barnett's choices (links at Guardian post) are: Necromonicon (H.P. Lovecraft); the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges; books in the library described in The Abortion: a historical romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan; The Pension Grillparzer from The World According to Garp (I thought John Irving pretty much did write that in reality, in a subsequent novel); and The Blind Assassin by 'Laura Chase' (Margaret Atwood).

Sunday Salon: Best books that never existed Maxine 2008

Franz Grillparzer to the Landstrasse apartment to discuss an opera project; Grillparzer found Beethoven, who was ill at the time, lying on a disordered bed in dirty night attire, a book in his hand.

'The Ninth' 2010

On the morningof the day that Thomas Bernhard was to receive the Austrian Academy of Science ' s Grillparzer Prize for drama, the longtime enfant terrible of Austrian letters realized that he had nothing to wear.

Enfant Not So Terrible Benjamin Lytal 2010

Apart from Hitchhiker's, David Barnett's choices (links at Guardian post) are: Necromonicon (H.P. Lovecraft); the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges; books in the library described in The Abortion: a historical romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan; The Pension Grillparzer from The World According to Garp (I thought John Irving pretty much did write that in reality, in a subsequent novel); and The Blind Assassin by 'Laura Chase' (Margaret Atwood).

Sunday Salon: Best books that never existed Maxine 2008

'As we passed by his home,' Grillparzer wrote in his autobiography,

Rahel's 'Jewish Sofa' Craig, Gordon A. 1988

The entire dramatic movement of this period is an endeavour to find a workable compromise between the classic and the Elizabethan drama, an endeavour which attained a fair measure of success a little later in the superb classic tragedies of Grillparzer.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

Grillparzer, whose authority both as a dramatist and as a sensitive lover of music is rightly esteemed very highly, has declared that it would be possible to take any one of Mozart's _arias_, and set words of quite different meaning to them.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

Grillparzer was rich, Ludwig was wise, and Hebbel was strong.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

Grillparzer, Weber, Mozart, Beethoven, and their compeers are both better performed and better understood now than they were before

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight