!!!Menasse, Robert

b. Vienna, June 21, 1954, narrative writer, essayist and translator. 
1981-1986 lecturer in Austrian literature at the University of 
São Paulo (Brazil). In his novels discusses the position of the 
individual in a world of social and political change. His essays 
concentrate on defining the position of Austrian literature. Awarded 
the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 1999.

!Works
Essays: Die sozialpartnerschaftliche Aesthetik, 1990; Das Land 
ohne Eigenschaften, 1992; Phaenomenologie der Entgeisterung, 1995; 
Dummheit ist machbar, 1999; Erklaer mir Oe., 2000. - Novels: Sinnliche 
Gewissheit, 1988; Selige Zeiten, bruechige Welt, 1991; Schubumkehr, 
1995; Die Vertreibung aus der Hoelle, 2001.

!Literature
S. Zobl, Spiegelungen. Reflexionen zum Romanwerk R. M., 
master's thesis, Vienna 1992.


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