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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The Post Office Girl 1

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instanceOf novel
author Stefan Zweig
authorNationality Austrian
countryOfOrigin Austria
depictsEventType economic crisis
hyperinflation
firstEnglishTranslationLanguage English
firstEnglishTranslationPublisher New York Review Books
firstEnglishTranslator Joel Rotenberg
genre modernist literature
novel
psychological fiction
social novel
hasEnding open-ended
hasEnglishTitleVariant The Post Office Girl
hasFemaleProtagonist true
hasForm prose
incompleteAtAuthorDeath true
languageOfTitle German
literaryMovement Austrian literature
European modernism
mainCharacter Christine Hoflehner
manuscriptDateApproximate 1920s–1930s
medium print
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Rausch der Verwandlung
posthumous true
protagonistOccupation postal clerk
publicationStatus posthumous
relatedWorkByAuthor Amok
Beware of Pity
The World of Yesterday
settingCountry Austria
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

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writings of Stefan Zweig notableWork The Post-Office Girl
The Post-Office Girl translatedTitle The Post-Office Girl
The Post-Office Girl hasEnglishTitleVariant The Post Office Girl
linked to: The Post-Office Girl