Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas - Hardcover

Simon, John; Schnitzler, Arthur; Schaefer, Margret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566633869 ISBN 13: 9781566633864

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.

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Review:

Simply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike.--The Review of Higher Education

Startlingly...life's universal themes are all here: the craving for erotic fulfillment, the fragility of love, the yearning for wealth, and the abruptness of death...these stories are rock-solid.--Publishers Weekly

One of the most distinctive and compelling voices of the early modernist movement is heard again in this elegant collection of nine urbane, perversely comic, deeply disturbing stories.--Kirkus

Margret Schaefer's fresh translation of nine stories and novellas brings most back into print for the first time in decades.--The Dallas Morning News

About the Author:

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) is one of the best-known Austrian playwrights and novelists. Performances of his play "Roundelay "("La Ronde") provoked riots and led to the author's being tried on obscenity charges. He was acquitted, but he banned the play from being performed in his lifetime. His works include N"ight Games: And Other Stories and Novellas" (Ivan R. Dee, 2001), T"he Lonely Way" (Lightning Source, 2001), "The Road to the Open" (Northwestern, 1991), and "Dream Story" (Penguin U.K., 1999), the basis of the film "Eyes Wide Shut,"
William Cunningham is a professor of German in the Classical and Modern Languages Department at the University of Louisville. He is also the author of "Martin Opitz: Poems of Consolation in Adversities of War "(Bouvier, 1974).
David Palmer was a professor in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Louisville. He died in Spring 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566633869
• ISBN 13: 9781566633864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352