From the fire of the Palace of Justice in Vienna in 1927, von Doderer Heimito builds pride and coral surround novel, with over a hundred unforgettable characters, drawn from all strata of postwar Vienna. In his chronicle not forgone the echoes of an illustrious past and its transformations, as well as the conviction that the ideology drowns the constitutive essence of life. Virtuoso outstanding defender of the essential dignity of man, Heimito von Doderer shown us in this novel, published in 1956, as one of the great European literature of the last century.
