A MAN WITHOUT COMPLAINTS

Franz Schuh in conversation with Armin Thurnher

A MAN WITHOUT COMPLAINTS

"From the first to the last page, this book is dedicated to the year 2022, the 'annus horribilis' in many people's lives, including mine."

After 11 months in various hospitals, Franz Schuh, this solitaire of Austrian literature, has resurfaced. His stories, essays and poems analyse the prevailing ways of life and combine with entertaining, sometimes melancholy humour to create a panorama of human tragicomedy. Whether he is recounting his experiences on the railway, his childhood in the Viennese suburbs or dealing with Anna Netrebko's contradictions, Schuh has a keen sense for the comic in the tragic. Laughing in a clever way is his speciality.

Armin Thurnher, journalist and publicist, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Vienna city newspaper Falter

Franz Schuh, born in Vienna in 1947, studied philosophy, history and German literature. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a columnist for magazines and radio stations. His awards include the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2006, the Austrian Art Prize in 2011 and the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Literary Criticism and Essay in 2021. His most recent publications with Zsolnay are Sämtliche Leidenschaften (2014), Fortuna. Aus dem Magazin des Glücks (2017) and Lachen und Sterben (2021).

In co-operation with Zsolnay Publishing House

Franz Schuh:
A man without complaints
ZsolnAy Verlag, July 2023, € 25,-