Robert Menasse
25. January 2008 06:23
Robert Menasse was born in 1954 in Vienna. After receiving degrees in German literature, philosophy and political science at universities in Vienna and Salzburg, he established himself in the Germa-language world as one of the major novelists and literary critics of his generation.
His works include the trilogy Wings of Stone, Meaningful Certainty, and Reverse Thrust. Though he is primarily known as an author, he has also established himself as an political and social theorist, as exemplified by collections of essays such as Dullness is Kin to Power.
His latest novel, The Expulsion from Hell, was published in 2001.
Robert Menasse lives in Vienna.
