Peter Rosei


Peter Rosei is an Austrian literary writer.
Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968. He worked for a time as the personal assistant to the Viennese painter Ernst Fuchs and then as the director of a publishing house for textbooks and nonfiction.
Since 1972, he has been a freelance writer, publishing novels, stories, essays, poetry, plays, travelogues, and children's literature. He has traveled extensively and intensively throughout the world and has been a guest writer at Oberlin College, Bowling [Green State University], and the University of New Mexico at Taos, as well as guest professor at the University of Nagoya, Japan.
His literary breakthrough came with the novel Wer war Edgar Allan in 1977, which was filmed in 1984 by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, with a screenplay by Rosei. His fictional texts portray the limits of knowledge and the discrepancies between thought and action in Western society. Rosei's prolific output includes the novels Die Milchstraße, Rebus, and Persona, as well as a six-part novel cycle titled Das 15 000-Seelen-Projekt from 1984–1988. In 2005, he published a panoramic novel of Vienna during the postwar period, Wien Metropolis.
Works that have been translated into English include Von hier nach dort , Das schnelle Glück , and Ruthless and Other Writings, all published by Ariadne Press; and Wien Metropolis .

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