If literature has one pivotal purpose, it is the very act of imagining what lies beyond our own life and language, and the attempt to think about the lives of others, according to Austrian novelist ...

Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr has been selected as the recipient of the 12th Pak Kyongni Prize, the award’s organizers said Wednesday. This year, a total of 37 nominees were chosen through four ...

Fine travel writing is rarely born out of a vacation, even an extended one. The lifestyle glossies are full of homogenous accounts of cherry blossom season in Japan or the faded glories of Tangier, ...

Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr is a man in search of the essence of things. In his novel memoir, Atlas of an Anxious Man, the author travels to 70 locations — and always meets another version of ...

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The author highlights the tragic intersection of disease and death through striking symbolism. Through the prose the author transitions from genuine mourning to calculated staging. The setting mirrors ...

Traveling the world is fun, but it is also time-consuming and costly. In 70 short stories, Christoph Ransmayr's "Atlas of an Anxious Man" takes the reader around the world, from one adventure to the ...