«Josephine Mutzenbacher» in German with a Parallel Translation

Book Josephine Mutzenbacher (Josefine Mutzenbacher) in German
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Original title: 
Josefine Mutzenbacher
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Language: 
German
Difficulty: 
B1
Year: 
1906
Number of pages: 
376

Josephine Mutzenbacher is an erotic novel first published anonymously in Vienna, Austria, in 1906.
Librarians at the University of Vienna originally attributed this to Felix Salten or Arthur Schnitzler. Today, critics, scientists and the Austrian government call Salten the sole author

In the original novel, there is a specific local dialect of Vienna of that time in the dialogues, and therefore the work is used as a rare source of this dialect for linguists. It also describes to some extent the social and economic conditions in which the lower class of that time was located. The novel has been translated into various languages and has been the subject of numerous films, theatrical productions, parodies, and so on.