Franz Grillparzer - Cultural References

Cultural References

  • He is honoured in Austria with a pastry, the Grillparzertorte.
  • Outside Austria, the modern reader is perhaps most familiar with Grillparzer via disparaging references to him in the popular John Irving novel The World According to Garp. The book features a story within a story entitled The Pension Grillparzer.

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