Improbable Journeys

Foreword to the English Translation - Foreword - I Improbable Journeys- A Cigar With Churchill - The Early Glimpses Into Institutional Gardens -Like When A Film Breaks - New York Surfaces - The Blue Milk of Grünangergasse- Pippi Longstocking in a Car on "the 71" - Excursion Into Vienna'sAnatomy - Through the Caucasus - Happiness on Sunday in Hetzendorf - TheHigh Seas in the Middle of Vienna - Hofmannsthal and the Viennabikes -Hope in Odessa and Hernals - A Journey Into Boredom - To BrigittenauWith Franz Grillparzer - A Journey to "Away" - Danzig, For Günter Grass'Birthday - From the History of Separations - In Praise of England - Canettiin the Wet English Wind - Saying Goodbye to Christmas - Into the SnowWhich Has Disappeared - To Moravia - A Novel of a Family - The End of LivingAnywhere - Hesitant Affection - From the Everyday War to the CapuchinCrypt - In the Eye of the Storm: The "Demel" - Unwilling Schoolgirls - TheDelta in Singerstrasse - Freud's Neighbours Who Disappeared -II ShadowPlays - Unspectacular Endings - Museum Landscapes For Murders - GentleMemory, Surrounded By Violence - The Aberdeen Game - The GloomyChristmas Game - For the New Year - Dying at the Film Casino Cinema - Permissionfor a Grave Next to Marlene Dietrich Withdrawn - Hills and GentleCardinals - For Richard Reichensperger - "Sleep Is My Great Experience"-Gra?zyna - The Last Guests - Shadow Play Radio - Memory with a String ofGreen Beads - The Nanny From Linz - Do-It-Yourself - Semolina-DumplingSoup From Morzin Square - Experiences Guaranteed for Viennese Travellersin Shanghai - Poor Tom - Nobel Sun - The Required Joy - III Ilse Aichinger:"I consider my existence entirely unnecessary" - Translator'sNote - Afterword - Ruth Rix - Acknowledgements.

The translator, Geoff Wilkes, is a Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He has previously translated Ilse Aichinger's "Die grössere Hoffnung" and "Film und Verhängnis. Blitzlichter auf ein Leben" into English for K&N.