Vicki Baum: Edition. Vol. 1: Die andern Tage. Novellen

Vicki Baums collection of novellas Die andern Tage (The Other Days), which the author endeavored to republish throughout her life as she considered it one of her best books, was published in 1922 and again in a slightly different compilation in 1931. The eight novellas present the variety of themes, styles and genres from Baums early work and her productions of the 1920/30s, which continued to have an effect until her late work in exile in the USA. The texts address artistic figures, often from the field of music with which the author was particularly familiar, religious and social outsiders, the fate of poverty and gender as well as environmental, animal and (fashionable) object aspects. For the first time, this volume offers a reliable textual basis as well as an extensive contextualizing commentary section with a bibliography.