Self-Portrait with Russian Piano
Wondratschek, Wolf / Yarbrough, Marshall
A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless nonchalance."* Now, he tells a story of a man looking back on his life in an honest Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man.Vienna is an uncanny, magical, and sometimes brutally alienating city. The past lives on in the cafes where lost souls come to kill...