"Die Tante Jolesch ober Der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten" ... what a superb title! ... "Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes" Tante Jolesch, Torberg assures us, did in fact exist, but "war, um mit Christian Morgenstern zu sprechen, keine 'Person im konventionellen Eigen-Sinn'" - "was not, to quote Christian Morgenstern, 'a person per se, in the conventional sense'".
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