This last of the late (1894???1939) Austrian writer???s 15 novels (including the highly praised Flight Without End and The Radetzky March) to appear in English is an early (1924) work: the pungently satiric story of Andreas Pum, a severely handicapped WWI veteran whose thoroughly understandable rudeness to a pompous passerby ends up costing him his job as a street organ-grinder, his marriage, and