Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, 1334 pages in total. Regarded by many as the most important Austrian novel of its era, Heimito von Doderer's The Demons is a sweeping portrayal of Viennese society on the cusp of catastrophic and irrevocable change. Narrated by retired civil servant Georg von Geyrenhoff, this monumental work takes readers on an intimate, multi-layered tour through Vienna's cafes and kitchens, bedrooms and back alleys, modest apartments and artist's ateliers, palatial parlors and wooded parks, a basement, and a burning palace. As a great conductor harmonizes a hundred discordant instruments into a concert, so too Heimoto von Doderer has blended his riotous cast of characters into a symphony that chronicles the cataclysmic events that alter, even end, these characters' lives. The paradoxes of this novel--which von Doderer wrote and revised over the course of twenty-five years--are born from the paradoxes of Europe after the first world war, with its superficial peace and order layered over a festering decline and despair that erupts into World War II. Clean, bright set. No dust jackets.
 "The Demons (2 Volumes) by: Heimito Von Doderer")
