The Post-Office Girl
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The Post-Office Girl is a posthumously published novel by Stefan Zweig that follows a poor Austrian postal clerk whose brief taste of luxury exposes the brutal social and economic inequalities of post–World War I Europe.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Stefan Zweig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| depictsEventType |
economic crisis
ⓘ
hyperinflation ⓘ |
| firstEnglishTranslationLanguage | English GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstEnglishTranslationPublisher | New York Review Books GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstEnglishTranslator | Joel Rotenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist literature
ⓘ
novel ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasEnding | open-ended ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitleVariant | The Post Office Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFemaleProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| incompleteAtAuthorDeath | true ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Austrian literature
ⓘ
European modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Christine Hoflehner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manuscriptDateApproximate | 1920s–1930s ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Rausch der Verwandlung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumous | true ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | postal clerk ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Amok
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beware of Pity NERFINISHED ⓘ The World of Yesterday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post–World War I Europe ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
brief exposure to luxury
ⓘ
consequences of social inequality ⓘ life of a poor Austrian postal clerk ⓘ |
| theme |
class conflict
ⓘ
consumerism ⓘ disillusionment ⓘ economic inequality ⓘ postwar society ⓘ poverty ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | The Post-Office Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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