Description: Salka Viertel’s autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman’s pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, “a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the twentieth century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies. Her childhood...is an entrancing idyll. In Berlin, in Prague, in Vienna, there appears Karl Kraus, Kafka, Rilke, Robert Musil, Schoenberg, Einstein, Alban Berg. There is the suffering and disruption of the First World War and the suffering and agony after it, which is described with such intimacy and vividness that you endure these terrible years with the author. Then comes the migration to Hollywood, where Salka’s house on Mabery Road becomes a kind of Pantheon for the gathered artists, musicians, and writers. It seems to me that no one has ever described Hollywood and the life of writers there with such verve.”
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Book Title: Kindness of Strangers
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Length: 8 in
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Publication Year: 2019
Type: Memoir
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 8 in
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Author: Salka Viertel
Genre: Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Film / Screenwriting, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Item Width: 5.3 in
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
