Title: Opening the Cafe
Date of publication: 1995
Author: Gala,
There is a chapter in it: "A guest is sitting in a cafe drinking coffee", which reads:
Thirty-five years ago, F. Torberg, the literary master of Viennese cafes, wrote this sentence, which seems plain and obvious to laymen, but in fact. For many years, it has been regarded as the gateway to unlock the century-old legend of the cafe here.
Unfortunately, the Cafe Herrenhof, where the writer wrote in those days, no longer exists. In the second year after he finished writing this article, this famous Cafe for Writers in the history of Austrian literature was declared closed. Later, someone opened a Cafe Espresso with the same name on its former site. Although the door wall and part of the pattern remained the same, it changed for a while, which was not the same as the atmosphere in the past, at least it was not a cafe that this writer would love and sit in all day writing.
In Europe, the regular customers of an authentic coffee shop must have personal love, and they are deeply attached to the shops they go to every day, the coffee tables they are used to sitting on, the familiar hosts and the coffee types they like to drink. Sometimes, there are guests who only go to one cafe all their lives and will never enter the door of another shop.
All kinds of twists and turns and mysteries in it are the literary sky that the great writer who has spent almost all his life in cafes is best at. I remember the first time I opened his book and read it carefully. I was sitting in cafe Landtmann, opposite the Vienna Castle Theatre, waiting for my first cup of Milanqi coffee. The afternoon sun shone obliquely on the elegant coffee tables and chairs near the window of the hall. There were people reading newspapers around me, whispering softly, and the hospitality with a large plate of coffee almost came and went silently. The air was filled with waves of intoxicating coffee aroma. Maybe it was at this moment that my complete "sinking" in the European cafe began.
this should be highly credible.