Titel	The Skies of Europe
Labels
ID	8255
Type	publication >> novel
Date	1941

Collection(s)	manually created entity
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8255/
Notes	Comprising more than 500 pages, divided into 90 chapters, making up ten books, the novel takes its title from a line in Auden’s poem “A Bride in the 30’s” (Greenfield 213). See W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1927- 1957, London. Faber & Faber (1966). 1969: “I’m led / through the night’s delights. / Though somber the sixteen skies of Europe / And the Danube flood”. [...] The novel covers the war-haunted years between the spring of 1936 and the autumn of 1939, thus also including events of the Spanish Civil War. The scenes are set mainly in and around Paris, but also in Munich, Starnberg, Oberammergau, Glasenbach near Salzburg, Barcelona, Figueras, Florence, Genoa, Savona, and Monte Carlo (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, 234).