cover image The Viennese

The Viennese

Paul Hofmann. Anchor Books, $10.95 (346pp) ISBN 978-0-385-23975-2

Hofmann writes of his native Vienna with the ambivalence he informs us is typical of the Viennese, who have always had a love/hate relationship with their home. ``Although the author does not delve deeply into the psychology of the Viennese neurosis, he describes candidly the people of this city from the golden days of the Baroque era to the present,'' said PW. (Oct.)