A rediscovered classic satire of literary celebrity, now an acclaimed film starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee One ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger arrives home to find the fulfilment of a long-forgotten wish in his sitting room: a visitor has come to tell him that the youth of Vienna has discovered his poetic genius. Saxberger has written nothing for thirty years, yet he now realises that he is more than merely an Unremarkable Civil Servant, after all – he is a Venerable Poet, for whom Late Fame is inevitable – if, that is, his new acolytes are to be believed. Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most admired, provocative European writers of the twentieth century. The Nazis attempted to burn all of his work, but his archive was miraculously saved and, with it, Late Fame. First published posthumously, only in 2014, it is a treasure, a perfect satire of literary self-regard and charlatanism. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Alexander Starritt
