A Resilient 'European Peace Project'. Robert Menasse’s "The European Courier" and "The Capital”

Robert Menasse’s Die Hauptstadt (The Capital), published in 2017, was immediately awarded with the prestigious Deutscher Buchpreis and considered as an unequivocal success for the author in the German-speaking and above all European literary field. The seven members of the jury highlighted that in his novel Menasse digs “with a light hand into the deeper strata of this world that we call our own” and they praised the book as “a multilayered text that interweaves existential questions on the private and political spheres in a masterly fashion, and releases the reader into open-endedness” (Peschel 2017)