“Vienna. The city that will become your coffin. It is not a city of good taste. Not of peace either, nor of animated contentment, as it tries to simulate. Vienna is telling lies with its facades and its people, it is full of lively demons of the past…”
IGOR ŠTIKS, Die Archive der Nacht, Berlin 2009, p. 19 (transl. mine)
In his novel El sueño del celta (“The Dream of the Celt”), the Peruvian Nobel winner Vargas Llosa finds perfect protagonist in the gay British consul and later Irish rebel, the agent and later crown witness of Belgian & British colonialism.
“Vienna. The city that will become your coffin. It is not a city of good taste. Not of peace either, nor of animated contentment, as it tries to simulate. Vienna is telling lies with its facades and its people, it is full of lively demons of the past…”
delirium clemens 