Heimito von Doderer, The Demons (1956)

Okay, so I read this!  Let's not pay any heed to how long it took.  I mean, I suppose it's not that bad, comparatively, but dude, I read all of Proust (which is something like four times as long) in less time than this.  Still, it IS long--this two-volume edition is about sixteen hundred pages, though it's worth noting that that's with a surprisingly large font--with one more like The Man without Qualities, it'd probably be more like thirteen hundred.

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