An Interpreter in Vienna | Table of Contents
Chapters and the Truth in Fiction podcast series
Marie Thibaut is a new interpreter for the French government in Vienna. Despite strange locals and diplomats alike, she is enamored by the promise of the utopian city. But Marie’s life is complicated when she attempts to be someone important and encounters strange historical crossroads. She enters the Viennese spy world and becomes disoriented in cultural exchanges and uncanny experiences.
Will Marie’s mind succumb to phobias, layered meanings, and isolation or will she persevere and find the right allies with whom she may do good in the world? Marie tells this tale as a long letter to her employer, Grégoire Lefebvre, and his wife Julie in an attempt to clear her name in the hours before mysterious Josef arrives at her door…at the threshold where she believes one of them will die.
An Interpreter in Vienna is a response to Graham Greene's The Third Man and a psychological thriller serialized on The Matterhorn each Saturday — beginning in a few weeks with my foreword.
I’ll update live links on this Table of Contents each week. Below, you can also see the topics for this summer’s related podcast series. I’m delighted to share this story with you and look forward to your feedback! I plan to bring this all together with edits as a full book at the end. Thank you for joining me.
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An Interpreter in Vienna
Kathleen Clare Waller
©2024
All photographs by the author unless otherwise noted.
This serialization is a work of fiction.
Table of Contents
Author’s Foreword
Podcast series — investigations on layering fiction
⬩Collective Experiences
⬩Visual Art
⬩Espionage
⬩Sports
⬩Adaptation
⬩Doppelgängers
⬩Clothing
⬩Vienna
⬩’The Apartment Ellipsis’
An Interpreter in Vienna
Introduction (start of Marie’s letter)
Part I: Xenophobia
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part II: Scopophobia
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Part III: Acrophobia
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part IV: Agoraphobia
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Part V: Claustrophobia
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Epilogue
