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A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siècle.This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler''s productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First Austrian Republic, and the rise of National Socialism, and he realized earlier than many of his contemporaries the threat that racist anti-Semitism posed to the then almost complete assimilation of Austrian Jews. His writings also reflect the irresolvable conflict between emerging feminism and the relentless "scientific" discourse of misogyny, ...
Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler
Foreword by Stanley Elkin Flirtations -- La Ronde -- Countess Mitzi, or The family reunion -- Casanova's homecoming -- Lieutenant Gustl.
Late Fame
First English publication of a recently rediscovered novella by one of the greatest European writers One seemingly ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger arrives home to find the fulfilment of a long-forgotten wish in his sitting room: a visitor has come to tell him that the youth of Vienna have discovered his poetic genius. Saxberger has written nothing for thirty years, yet he now realises that he is more than merely an Unremarkable Civil Servant, after all: a Venerable Poet, for whom Late Fame is inevitable - if, that is, his new acolytes are to be believed... Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most admired, provocative European writers of the twentieth century. The Nazis attempted to burn all ...
Dream Story
'Her fragrant body and burning red lips' A married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century Vienna. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series
Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association
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Arthur Schnitzler
It is remarkable that to this day, no biography of Arthur Schnitzler concentrates on his social criticism. Thanks to the wealth of autobiographical material, it is possible to trace his position as an Austrian Jew both in his life and in his writing. As an individualist, Schnitzler distanced himself equally from Orthodoxy and Zionism, and yet conversion was never an option. This biography places Schnitzler's sense of cultural identity in its historical context, reading it against anti-Semitic incidents of the period. The second focus is on his critique of the double standards regarding women, which left men considerably more freedom. This kind of social criticism, found even in his early dra...
