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Book Late Fame

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2015-10-08
  • ISBN : 1782272208
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Late Fame written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of his work, but his archive was miraculously saved, and with it, Late Fame. Never published before, it is a treasure, a perfect satire of literary self-regard and charlatanism. Arthur Schnitzler (b. 1862 in Vienna) was one of the most influential European writers of the twentieth century, perhaps best known here for his novellas Dream Story and Fräulein Else. He qualified as a doctor but was increasingly driven to a career in writing, resulting in several celebrated plays, novellas and novels which explore the great existential subjects of the modern age: relationships, love, sex, ageing and death. Because his work dealt with subjects considered taboo, he frequently attracted the hostility of the authorities, consequently losing his position as Chief Medic in the Reserve Army and being tried for disorderly conduct. Schnitzler was close friends with Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud, who both admired him greatly, and a member of the 'Young Vienna' circle of writers who regularly met at a café nicknamed 'Café Megalomania' - the very same clique and café he satirises so deliciously in Late Fame. Schnitzler died in 1931. Pushkin Press also publishes his novellas Fräulein Else, Dying and Casanova's Return to Venice.

Book Dream Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Penguin Classics
  • Release : 2023-02-23
  • ISBN : 9780241620229
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dream Story written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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

Book The Road to the Open

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-03-12
  • ISBN : 1789120802
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book The Road to the Open written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English translation of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Der Weg ins Freie” (1908) was first published in 1913 and is one of only two novels—the other being “Therese” (1928)—by the Viennese author, who was better known for his short stories and plays, including “Reigen” (“Round Dance”), known to most English-speaking readers as “La Ronde.” “The Road to the Open” tells the story of the aristocratic young composer Georg von Wergenthin-Recco who has talent but lacks the drive to get down to work and spends most of his time socializing with members of the assimilationist, artistically sensitive Jewish bourgeoisie of Vienna and other non-Jews like himself who enjoy their company. A love affair with a Catholic lower middle class girl, combined with the author’s authentic descriptions of the milieu, the arts, the psychology of love, and the anti-Semitism that was coming to dominate so much of life and politics in the Austria-Hungary of the time, make this novel a classic. “One of the most important, representative, revelatory works of Austria at the turn of the century....The best English version of the novel.”—Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University “In Arthur Schnitzler the two strands of Austrian fin-de-siècle culture, the moralistic and the aesthetic, were present in almost equal proportions. Small wonder that Freud hailed Schnitzler as a ‘colleague’ in the investigation of the ‘underestimated and much-maligned erotic.’”—Carl Schorske, author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Book Eight Plays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2007-08-02
  • ISBN : 0810119331
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Eight Plays written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translations of works by the master playwright, including scenes and entire works not available elsewhere

Book Lieutanant Gustl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Lieutanant Gustl written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new printing of the popular novel by Schnitzler.

Book Fr  ulein Else

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 1998-02-24
  • ISBN : 1908968729
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Fr ulein Else written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.

Book Desire and Delusion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Desire and Delusion written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas--Dying, Flight into Darkness, and Fraulein Else.

Book The Dead are Silent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2020-09-28
  • ISBN : 1613103018
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book The Dead are Silent written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Youth in Vienna

Download or read book My Youth in Vienna written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Casanova s Return to Venice

Download or read book Casanova s Return to Venice written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing circles." One of Schnitzler’s most poignant evocations of the passing of time and the ironies of sentiment and love, Casanova’s Return to Venice tells the story of an ageing Casanova’s desperate desire to return to the city he truly loves after a life of exile; a desire which is contrasted with his still-libidinous and sensuous – yet weary – pursuit of women, money and prestige.

Book A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler

Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler written by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and he chronicles the collapse of traditional social structures at the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the struggles of the newly founded republic. In the 1950s Schnitzler''s powerful literary record assumed model character for Viennese Jewish intellectuals born after the Shoah, and his portrayal of gender relations and role expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick''s adaptation of Schnitzler''s Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler''s dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria''s multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago.e expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick''s adaptation of Schnitzler''s Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler''s dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria''s multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago.e expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick''s adaptation of Schnitzler''s Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler''s dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria''s multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago.e expectations and casual sex are received with the same fascination today as they were by the audiences of his own time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick''s adaptation of Schnitzler''s Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler''s dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria''s multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago.n time. Schnitzler remains a major figure in contemporary European culture, as his works are still widely read, performed, and adapted -- witness Stanley Kubrick''s adaptation of Schnitzler''s Traumnovelle as the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. In this volume a team of international scholars explores Schnitzler''s dramas and prose worksfrom contemporary critical vantage points, but within the context of Austria''s multicultural society at a time of unprecedented change. Contributors: Gerd Schneider, Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Elizabeth Loentz, Iris Bruce, Felix Tweraser, Elizabeth Ametsbichler, Hillary Hope Herzog, Katherine Arens, John Neubauer, Imke Meyer, Susan C. Anderson, Eva Kuttenberg, and Matthias Konzett. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is professor of German at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Book Studies in Arthur Schnitzler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert William Reichert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN : 9780807888421
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Studies in Arthur Schnitzler written by Herbert William Reichert and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honors the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors are Kurt Bergel, Joseph Dayag, Lore Foltin, Robert Kann, Richard Lawson, Walter Perl, Herbert Reichert, and Robert Donald Spector and they attend to themes from depictions of death to the influence of Nietzsche on Schnitzler's work and his reception in France.

Book Dying

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2012-08-31
  • ISBN : 1908968710
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Dying written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Felix is diagnosed with a terminal illness, his lover Marie immediately swears to die with him. However, as their last year unfolds and Felix's illness progresses, Marie's begins to lose courage at the same time that Felix increasingly depends on her willingness to keep her promise. An engrossing and shocking psychological study set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dying is a shining example of Schnitzler's talents as a dramatist.

Book Rhapsody

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Rhapsody written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Casanova s Homecoming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Schnitzler
  • Publisher : 1st World Publishing
  • Release : 2006-07
  • ISBN : 1421821729
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Casanova s Homecoming written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casanova was in his fifty-third year. Though no longer driven by the lust of adventure that had spurred him in his youth, he was still hunted athwart the world, hunted now by a restlessness due to the approach of old age. His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing circles. Again and again, during the last ten years of his exile, he had implored the Supreme Council for leave to return home. Erstwhile, in the drafting of these petitions - a work in which he was a past master - a defiant, wilful spirit seemed to have guided his pen; at times even he appeared to take a grim delight in his forwardness. But of late his requests had been couched in humble, beseeching words which displayed, ever more plainly, the ache of homesickness and genuine repentance.

Book Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler   s Prose

Download or read book Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler s Prose written by Marie Kolkenbrock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' and 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.

Book Plays and Stories  Arthur Schnitzler

Download or read book Plays and Stories Arthur Schnitzler written by Arthur Schnitzler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Stanley Elkin Flirtations -- La Ronde -- Countess Mitzi, or The family reunion -- Casanova's homecoming -- Lieutenant Gustl.