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Schneider, Robert

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(1961-    ) Austrian playwright and author whose first novel, Schlafes Bruder (1992; trans Shaun Whiteside as Brother of Sleep 1995), edges into sf-tinted Fantastika through the life of its protagonist, Jophannes Elias Alder, a nineteenth-century musical prodigy (see Music) whose precocious compositions are made possible through what might be described as a Psi Power: an ability essentially to hear all sounds, and to transform them. A kind of liebestod overwhelms him aged twenty-two, and he dies. Schneider himself, after several non-fantastic novels, the first two thematically linked with his first, retired from writing in 2007. [JC]

Robert Schneider

born Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria: 16 June 1961

works (highly selected)

  • Schlafes Bruder (Leipzig, Germany: Reclam, 1992) [hb/]
    • Brother of Sleep (Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1995) [trans by Shaun Whiteside of the above: hb/Michael Hornburg]

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