Die Zeiten sind schwer, alles ist auf den Kopf gestellt

Abstract

This article discusses the narratives created by Veza Canetti in the context of the serious social, economic, political and moral crisis that hit Austria in the interbellum period. The destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had as one of its consequences a period of intense political conflicts in Austria, in which the Social Democratic Party and conservative forces fought each other. Committed to the reformist project of the Austrian social democracy, which was diametrically opposed to the proto-fascism of the Christian-Social Party, Veza Canetti was a militant author who practiced a literature engaged in the struggle for the liberation of the oppressed and in feminism. Her personal trajectory was profoundly marked by the prolonged Austrian crisis, and her connection to the social democracy agenda must be understood on the basis of her triple condition of exclusion from Viennese society as a whole: woman in a patriarchal society; Jew in an anti-Semitic society; Sephardic in a Jewish world dominated by Ashkenazi Judaism.