La Valse and Foreign (SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation) - Softcover

"Reichart belongs with the top Austrian authors of her generation. With radical stubbornness, she writes against the forgetting of everyday violence and oppression with a language that is often hectic, breathless, as if time is running out. The stories in La Valse expose Austria's complicity in fascism and the Holocaust, as well as the everyday anti-Semitism and xenophobia. Foreign specifically addresses the oppression of a patriarchal culture that destroys women's psyche and genius." -- Gisela Brinker-Gabler, coeditor of Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe