Three Hands at the Paper: Before the First Paste
30 English pages · 30 German pages. The posthumous editorial chamber establishes paper, keys, chairs, newspapers, names, and the question of who may arrange the dead.
Rights, representation, and publication
A complete Austrian literary project seeking representation and publication.
Die Schattendorfer Echos / The Schattendorf Echoes is a four-volume literary sequence in a German principal text and an authorized English literary parallel. Frankfurt is the immediate meeting opportunity; Austria remains the project’s historical, literary, and cultural identity.
The literary proposition
A haunted Austrian Künstlerroman that restores the six-month Interval of 1927.
The sequence follows Hermann von Kunstdorf—artist, trans woman, parent, and heir—her daughter Julia, the child Alex, and a Mansion that becomes home, public hall, family archive, painted world, and route of the returning dead.
Its historical intervention is to refuse the usual jump from the Schattendorf shootings to the July acquittal and Palace of Justice fire. It gives the intervening months duration and asks why the First Austrian Republic could no longer hold legal procedure, moral legitimacy, mass grievance, and effective leadership in one credible order.
German principal textApprox. 284,000 extracted words across the Prelude and three novels.
English literary parallelApprox. 283,600 extracted words; structurally corresponding, not literal translation.
Retail configurationPrelude, Novel I, Novel II, Novel III as four literary volumes.
Critical ecosystemReader’s Companion and Critical Concordance as optional guided and research assets.
Four-volume literary sequence
The commercial proposition is the fiction—not fourteen review files.
The reviewer omnibuses and critical books demonstrate depth, completeness, bilingual control, and institutional potential. They are supporting assets.
Dancing on the Tightrope of Reality
501 English pages · 542 German pages. The Mansion, family wound, public room, Schattendorf, and six-month Interval acquire duration.
Hearts Divide, Voices Fall!
235 English pages · 252 German pages. Record, counter-record, work, colony, and movement transform the stated materials.
Voices Rise, Hearts Unite!
201 English pages · 216 German pages. Political and bodily time compress as unfinished conflicts enter before earlier ones have ended.
Why it is distinctive
Historical duration, supernatural method, documentary ethics, trans life, and musical form in one built composition.
The work is not positioned as a conventional Austrian historical novel with ghosts added.
The Interval
January–July 1927 becomes narrated civil time rather than empty transit toward the famous fire.
The haunted Mansion
Material house, family inheritance, public room, psychic architecture, painted world, and editorial chamber occupy one surface.
Historical personhood
Hermann’s trans life is carried through documents, clothing, inheritance, family address, body, and pronoun provenance.
Documentary method
Arbeitsprotokoll, Gegenprotokoll, and Fragenbuch make source, hand, uncertainty, contradiction, and use visible.
Austrian literary inheritance
The sequence enters the field of Kraus, Neumann, Doderer, Canetti, Mann, and historical scholarship while changing its center and scale.
Optional depth
The novels stand first. The Companion guides rereading; the Concordance supports research, teaching, and institutional engagement.
Professional materials
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Novel I — 50-page sample
Fifty pages of actual novel text from Dancing on the Tightrope of Reality. The primary trade sample.
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Project, status, rights posture, word counts, and Frankfurt availability.
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Professional presentation of story, historical distinction, volumes, languages, status, and author.
Download rights deck →All four literary samples
Prelude plus fifty-page samples from Novels I–III in both German and English, with spoiler boundaries.
Open sample library →German principal text — Roman I
Fifty pages from Tanz auf dem Drahtseil der Wirklichkeit.
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Detailed chronological full-spoiler plot account across the Prelude and all three novels.
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