Mapped
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Musil's Vienna is the capital of a monarchy he nicknames Kakania, in its last year before the war that will end it. A detached young man drifts through the salons and ministries of an empire busy planning a grand patriotic jubilee that history will never let it hold. The map runs from the Ringstrasse and the imperial Hofburg through the palais quarter of the inner city out to the baroque garden districts where he keeps a small house of his own.
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The Third Man
Graham Greene
Greene's story of the black market in occupied, four-power Vienna, where the pulp novelist Holly Martins comes to visit his old friend Harry Lime and arrives in time for Lime's funeral, then slowly learns that his friend is neither dead nor innocent. The ruined city is exact: the Central Cemetery where Lime is buried and reburied, the doorway in the old town where he is glimpsed alive, the Great Wheel at the Prater where the two friends have it out, and the sewers where the chase ends.
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