Return to Vienna

Hilde Spiel's diary from 1946 is a historical document of exceptional quality. It testifies both to the author's perspicacity and – precisely and affectionately observed – to the remaining flair of the city of Vienna, shaken to its foundations. After fleeing to London from the Nazis in 1936, Hilde Spiel returned to Vienna as a post-war correspondent. With sensitivity and poignancy, she describes what is happening in the city and within herself, with an "almost blind passion for all embodiments of the old Austria, which was now only rudimentary and illusory."


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