Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anek

A brilliantly written book that is bursting with anecdotes and yet presents a tale of melancholy through its wise humor. Friedrich Torberg was perhaps one of the last to vividly evoke the atmosphere of the former Habsburg cultural sphere and the world of Bohemia in Budapest, Prague, and Vienna from personal memory. Franz Molnár, Egon Erwin Kisch, Anton Kuh, Egon Friedell, and Alfred Polgar - they all come alive again here. But even more so, the unknowns have their say: the absent-minded religion teacher Grün, the witty lawyer Sperber, the editors of the legendary Prague Tagblatt, and of course Aunt Jolesch, who commented on the course of the world in her own way.