Desire and Delusion: Three Novellas - Softcover

Schnitzler, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566636035 ISBN 13: 9781566636032

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 2004

Synopsis

Dying, Flight into Darkness, and Fraulein Else reveal the depths of Schnitzler's psychological and moral understanding of life as well as the masterful storytelling techniques that immerse the reader into the very center of his characters' thoughts and emotions. The tales of Arthur Schnitzler-especially as rendered in Margret Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations-are many suggestive, allusive, and dreamlike things. But they are most certainly not the work of a period writer. -Chris Lehmann, Washington Post Book World

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Review:

In Margret Schaefer's superb translations Arthur Schnitzler re-emerges as a riveting storyteller.--Sandra M. Gilbert

Beautifully translated. Each novella offers rich examples of the darkly introspective and self-destructive stream of consciousness Schnitzler employed.--E. Wickersham, Villanova University "CHOICE "

Schnitzler and Schaefer-a perfect marriage, made in Vienna.--Frederick Crews, University of California, Berkeley

She is readable, relaxed and on the whole the best guide for English readers to the nondramatic works of the man whom Freud admired and held in awe as his literary doppelganger.--Peter Heinegg "America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture "

The tales of Arthur Schnitzler--especially as rendered in Margret Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations--are many suggestive, allusive, and dreamlike things. But they are most certainly not the work of a period writer.--Chris Lehmann "The Instrumentalist "

This extraordinary portrayal of psychic shock and disintegration is, simply, one of the greatest modern short novels.--Kirkus

Translator Margret Schaefer [offers a] concise and informative introduction.... Schnitzler's characters--abrim with sensibility, but devoid of common sense--seem so contemporary.--New Haven Register

Clear and accessible versions of these haunting, riveting stories.--Toronto Globe and Mail

These three dark novellas show Schnitzler's mastery as a guide to the neurotic, death-obsessed world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.--Robert Alter

One reads the stories with suspense, pleasure, amusement.... [Schnitzler] can be read with pleasure and ease.--The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1566636035
• ISBN 13: 9781566636032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288