The Weight of Things is the first book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007) & the first to be translated into English After winning acclaim with this novel
- awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978
- she embarked on a brilliant & ambitious literary project called ' The Fortress' which earned her cult status comparisons to James Joyce & admirers including Elfriede Jelinek & W G Sebald Yet in this her first novel we discover not an eccentric fluke of a literary nature but rather the work of a brilliant & masterful satirist philosophically minded yet raging with anger & wit who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy & deep abiding cruelties running parallel over time through the society & the individual minds of a century