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Book SynopsisThese essays focus on different periods of the author’s life and hybrid identity: his Austrian childhood, his teenage years in France, his coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England, and then settling in the U.S. into an academic career.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Austrian Roots
Chapter 1: True Lies: The Barber of Salzburg
Chapter 2: Viktor
Chapter 3: Bipolar: Mater Melancholia
Chapter 4: Tennis Lessons
Chapter 5: Scrip
Chapter 6: Remembering Dieta
Part II: Adult Branchings
Chapter 7: What Goes Around, or My Suitcase Fiasco in Spain
Chapter 8: My Buddha Experience
Chapter 9: Loving and Losing Dogs
Chapter 10: My Obscure Career as an Aspiring Poet
Chapter 11: Archetypal Dreams
Chapter 12: Vespa Dreams
Chapter 13: Rereading Old Books
Chapter 14: Reflections on Visiting Weimar and Buchenwald
Chapter 15: Suicide on the Mind: My Life Preserver
III: Falling Leaves and What Remains
Chapter 16: Timepieces
Chapter 17: Being in Time
Chapter 18: Autumn Leaves
Chapter 19: Time’s Relativity
Chapter 20: The Inevitable Tipping Point of Mortality
Chapter 21: Reading Obituaries
Chapter 22: What Remains: Paying Rent on the Dead
Chapter 23: “Shakespeare and No End”: My Long, Imaginative Relationship with the Stratford Bard
Chapter 24: Reading Letters from College Friends in These Pandemic Times
Index
About the Author
