Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere
Abstract
This article tries to work critically through my own (and the author’s) readings of Magris’ most famous academic work, Il mito absburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna. It tries to distil the main points made by the author on myth and how both, Magris’ and the reviewer’s, attitude towards the book have changed – or sharpened? – throughout the more than five decades that have passed since its publication. It has been a period in which the text has proven to be one of the most seminal works in Austrian, Habsburg and Central European Studies that has inspired many successors in the field.
