works Vespers in Vienna

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Titel Vespers in Vienna
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  • alternative name >> maiden name: The Red Danube
  • ID 8341
    Type publication >> novel
    Date 1947
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  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8341/
    Notes The novel was turned into a successful film in 1949, entitled The Red Danube, which prompted a reprint of the novel with that title. Vespers in Vienna exhibits some superficial similarities with Greene’s blockbuster script, as the city of Vienna under the government of the four occupying powers becomes the setting for a tragic love affair between a refugee from Eastern Europe and a British officer. Marshall had observed the sufferings of displaced people stranded in Austria, and especially in the capital city with its many ruins. In his novel, he sketched the routines of military life with its comic aspects but also dramatized the problems associated with the increasingly divergent views of the four occupying powers, mirrored in the complicated debates between them, which are repeatedly punctuated by humorous misunderstandings. (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, 281).
    References Vespers in Vienna, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947.

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    1947 related >> was/were written by >> written by Marshall, Bruce

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    related >> adapted to The Red Danube

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    The Red Danube alternative name >> maiden name deu

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