Schneider, Robert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(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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