ABSTRACT
Of the Austrian writers of our period Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr, Kafka, Franz Werfel, Wein-heber are so markedly international and have had so pro-found an influence on German literature taken as a whole that they have been dealt with in their appropriate place as pioneers of new movements. Others have been fitted in with their fellow-craftsmen over the frontier; see Austrians and Viennese writers in the Index. The Austrians grouped in the present chapter have specifically Austrian qualities, but they are of course read outside of Austria.
