Tag: Maximilian Hugo Bettauer

  • Hugo Bettauer, an author virtually unknown to the U.S., will see new appreciation with the recent translation of his novel “The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast.” Originally titled “Das blaue Mal: Der Roman eines Ausgestoßenen” and published in 1922, Peter Höyng and Chauncey J. Mellor’s new and first translation of this book…

  • Austrian author Hugo Bettauer’s novel might have been lost to the ages had Peter Höyng, an associate professor of German studies in Emory College, not stumbled across it in the Austrian National Library while doing scholarly research on the author in 2002.

  • A European novel of racial mixing and “passing” in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.