Infierno

Vienna, 1938. The annexation of Austria to the territory of the Reich is imminent. It is time for pogroms and denunciations, for careerists and fervent supporters of Nazism. Troubled days in which the young Ursula must decide her path: participate in the Hitler reign of terror or join the Resistance that she is already organizing her networks. While her brother tries to convince the rest of the family to embrace the National Socialist crusade with the same enthusiasm, the figure of her boyfriend stands out before Ursula as the only handle in the face of the fear and bewilderment she experiences, the same ones that grip thousands of his compatriots, to a whole continent. Although composed between 1946 and 1948, this capital masterpiece had to wait more than seventy years before being published for the first time. A novel of oppressive intensity, an illustrious and fundamental testimony to barbarism -a precursor in many ways to Mass and Power by Elias Canetti-, the recovery of Infierno finally restores its author's prominent place in the history of 20th century European literature.