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Vienna, representing itself through art and literature, and as the capital of an empire, has produced a vast number of writers, artists, architects and composers, and philosophers, some absolutely modernist. Treatment must be selective, attempting to avoid too the prevalent nostalgia with which the city is so often treated and which it projects. Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday (1942) records that Vienna, and its conservatism has been criticized; a more critical review of Vienna as a society whose art was decorative (not ornamental) and kitsch comes from Herman Broch, in Hofmannsthal and his Time (1951). Broch compared Paris and Vienna as equivalent centres of European power in the eighteenth-century—one had Versailles, the other replied with Schönbrunn—but he noted that Paris had become the city of revolutions, which made it a ‘world city’, striving towards world revolution, whereas Vienna had remained the cheerful Baroque capital, suspicious of change (Broch 1984: 64).
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Tambling, J. (2016). Vienna. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_15
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