Road to the Open (European Classics) - Softcover

Schnitzler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810109964 ISBN 13: 9780810109964

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Turn-of-the-century Vienna was the scene of tremendous social and artistic upheaval. Arthur Schnitzler's novel The Road to the Open brilliantly captures the complex world of Freud, Mahler, Strauss, and Klimt, dealing masterfully with the basic issues of Austian anti-Semitism, the Viennese intellectual community, post-Wagnerian music, and the psychology of Vienna's middle class.

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Review:

"Of [Schnitzler's] many extraordinary novels and novellas, I recommend "The Road into the Open. The reader is struck by the emotional clarity with which Schnitzler treats autobiograhical material, for the callous, philandering Georg is an aristocratic, de-Semiticized version of himself."--"New York Times Book Review

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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-siecle 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-Siecle Vienna

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810109964
• ISBN 13: 9780810109964
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412