Welcome to Litsy!

Franzl,a young man from Salzkammergut,leaves his home to become the apprentice of a tobacconist,one of his mother‘s ex lovers.In Vienna he falls in love with a woman who doesn‘t reciprocate his feelings,has conversations with Freud&witnesses how the city changes under Nazi rule which he opposes but can‘t fight.I love how Seethaler writes about the “little” people with warmth,depth&humor without romanticizing working class life or Nazi opposition.

#14booksin14weeks A bit behind this wk.Malcolm is expert of letting what she finds tell the story.Her talks with “Aaron Green” a pseudonym, pulls back the curtain from the therapists point of view. The talking cure has its limits , that maybe the most they can do is “transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness. “ may not be far off.How therapy often ends not at a breakthrough,but more mundane reasons.published in 1981 , Freudian

#MayMontage #Therapy No , I‘m not a therapist but I play one on TV ! Just kidding! I love a lot of 20th century literature which is heavily influenced by Freud & theories of psychoanalysis. More of a Jungian myself , thrifted !

Ever since the #NYRBbookclub read Malcom‘s In the Freud Archives , I seem to be finding Malcolm‘s or they keep finding me. Goodwill!

Loved this.

A group of "found family" in an apartment block in Vienna in early 20th century.

... he thinks, of the city at night, in springtime: You are mine. These are his people: the beggars lounging on the banks of the canal; the pickpockets and swindlers who come out in the dark, and furtively meet his eye. Yet he is also perfectly able to pass...

When he slips in among the finery and feathers of the opera-going crowd, as he does almost every evening about this time, they will have no idea he is not one of them.