Ghosts in the swamp. Strobble K.Kh.

“The late color of German romance, who was risen with amazing force, youth and riot”: this is how Osip Mandelstam spoke about the novel by Karl Hans of the “Ghosts in the Swamp” (1920). This book is one of the vivid phenomena of the Austrian fiction of the beginning of the 20th century, developing the creative worlds of Alfred Kubin (“other side”) and Gustav Mayrink (“golem”). With a daughter and artist in love with her. The wanderings of tourists among the destroyed attractions face the grotesque struggle of residents for power and the rebellious images of the old culture. The novel is published with the chosen novels, where the stroke also reveals the Gothic side of Austria-Hungary.