About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 35. Chapters: Amok (novella), A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Beware of Pity (novel), Buchmendel, Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw, Confession of a Murderer, Confusion (novella), Fame (novel), Fear (Zweig novella), February Shadows, Flight without End, From Nine to Nine, Grado. Susse Nacht, Grand Hotel (novel), Greed (Jelinek novel), Herzfleischentartung, Hominid (novel), Hotel Savoy (novel), Job (novel), Komm, susser Tod (novel), Legacy of Cain, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Malina (novel), Mars in Aries, Me and Kaminski, Night Work (book), Opernball (novel), Rebellion (novel), Repetition (novel), Short Letter, Long Farewell, The City Without Jews, The Death of Virgil, The Emperor's Tomb, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, The Old New Land, The Post Office Girl, The Royal Game, The Sleepwalkers (Broch), The Trial, The Wall (1963 novel), Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, Venus in Furs, We Murder Stella. Excerpt: February Shadows (German: Februarschatten) is a 1984 historical novel by award-winning Austrian author Elisabeth Reichart. She wrote it as a response to her discovery of the Muhlviertler Hasenjagd ("rabbit hunt of the Muhlviertel region"), a massacre on February 2, 1945 at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Upper Austria. In the Muhlviertler Hasenjagd, the civilian inhabitants of the Muhlviertel hunted down and killed almost 500 prisoners, including men, women and children, who escaped from Special Barracks Number 20. February Shadows tells the story of this hunt, and its repercussions, through the eyes of a young Austrian girl named Hilde. The story combines real time narrative and flashbacks: the adult Hilde recounts the story to her adult daughter, Erica. In an inner monologue, Hilde struggles with her traumatic past and scarred present. Erica's insistent questions force her mother to confront her own suppressed memories of the event. The narrative use of fragmented sentences and stream of consciousness does not conform to the rules of traditional grammar or sentence structure. These methods encourage the reader to better understand the psyche and experiences of the protagonist. The timing of the publication is significant: during the 1980s, Austria's younger generation was trying to come to grips with their country's Nazi past. The story of a February hidden in shadows-February Shadows-forces the readers, most of whom would be Austrians, to relieve the experience of that February and thus remember a past that most Austrians wanted to suppress. In this way, it is both a culturally revealing and politically charged story. Russian prisoners of war held in a concentration camp. The 500 prisoners to escape from Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp during Muhlviertler Hasenjagd were in similar condition.The Muhlviertler Hasenjagd took place on February 2, 1945. An estimated 500 prisoners escaped from Special Barracks Number 20 of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentr
