Balancing Acts. Textual Strategies of Peter Henisch, Edited by Craig Decker

Born in Vienna in 1943, Peter Henisch has become a highly significant and prolific voice among contemporary Austrian authors. In an early essay, Henisch writes of the need to produce a "literature of possibilities," and this principle has continued to inform his writing right up to the present. The essays constituting this volume present possible ways of reading the myriad forms of Henisch's literature of possibilities. Employing a range of approaches and focusing on a large number of Henisch's texts, the scholars writing here explore and illuminate the multiple thematic and structural balancing acts that characterize Henisch's prose and poetry.