The Road into the Open - Rilegato

Schnitzler, Arthur

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520075757 ISBN 13: 9780520075757

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1992

Riassunto

A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism,The Road into the Open (Der Weg ins Freie, 1908) is a remarkable novel by a major Austrian writer of the early twentieth century. Set in fin-de-siècle Austriathe cafés, salons, and musical concerts frequented by the Viennese eliteSchnitzler's perceptive exploration of the creative process and the private lives and public aspirations of urban Jewish intellectuals ranks with the highest achievements of Karl Kraus and Robert Musil.

The novel's central character, Baron Georg von Wergenthin, is a handsome young composer whose troubled relations with women, musical collaborators, and representatives of the old social order make Schnitzler's book a revealing investigation of individual psychology and social allegory. In his comprehensive introduction, Russell Berman situates the book within the literary and political history of Central Europe and analyzes its relation to psychoanalysis, Marxism, musical aesthetics, and the legacy of European modernism.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), an Austrian physician, wrote novels, short stories, and plays, one of which,La Ronde, was the basis of a successful film. Roger Byers is an independent scholar and translator in Bradenton, Florida.Russell A. Berman is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

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"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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520075757
• ISBN 13: 9780520075757
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 314
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile