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not far from the university
and from the Berggasse address
where Freud lived,
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connects the Boltzmanngasse
to an older residential district below.
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(and its genius loci)
was Doderer's way of
recovering the link
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and his experience as a young man
before and during the war -
a sense of the deeper structure of historical time
and of the writer's memory.
"Eros and inwardness in Vienna
Weininger, Musil, Doderer"
By David S. Luft
University of Chicago Press
2003
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Heimito von Doderer's novel "The Strudlhof Steps".
I read this novel long before I ever
set foot in Vienna.
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I have walked up and down
these steps many times,
and each time
it is as if
I were stepping back
to a period
long before I was born,
but that feels present
all the same.
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Photographs by Merisi
7 September 2009
Hello Merisi,
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful places to know!
Unfortunaly I'm so far....
Cheers,
Bia
www.biaviagemambiental.blogspot.com
Dear M,
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. I will add it to my list of things to see if we ever get to Vienna!
So good to hear from you again! I have missed my blogging friends so much. Thank you so much for your very sweet comment. Actually, we lived right behind La Tomate and the first Starbucks I worked at was directly across the street on R & Connecticut, next to Teaism (were you familiar with it?). I was not as familiar with the Uptown area, but we did have a Firehook close to us in Dupont Circle. How did we manage to miss the grape pizza?!?!
I agree. I miss DC and its quirky little neighborhoods a lot sometimes.
Betty
Beatriz,
ReplyDeleteone day, you may be able to come and visit!
The Gossamer Tearoom,
there are quite a few quirky neighborhoods in Washington, DC, and I miss them dearly.
Teaism, one of my favorite places ever in DC!
Scrambled egg with fresh coriander, tea-smoked salmon and naan bread topped with caramelized onions. Lavender-mint tea and their oh so delicious ginger scones!
I frequented most often the Firehook bakery on Pennsylvania Ave, it is only a block from the Library of Congress and I loved to go there for coffee break (the Roquefort-Roast beef sandwich was not bad either).
Do you remember when Marvelous Market first opened and people stood in line for their bread (causing the Russian Pravda to publish a photo with the title "Americans Lining Up For Bread!")?
Oh dear, am I getting too nostalgic here? ;-)
What a beautiful staircase. love grille part of it.
ReplyDeleteMagical time-traveling steps evidently -- and beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteHello Merisi. I followed you here from Vicki Lane's.. and so glad I did. I love your Blog. I spent a week only in your lovely city in 2008 and so am happy to walk the city with you and get to know it better. Greetings fron New Zealand.
ReplyDeleteAs a psychologist it is very interesting to know where Freud lived:) I had to read his concepts in my training in the US, and I was glad to have saved the German version from my year studies in Amsterdam, because it was not superhard, but in English it does not make any sense!
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