La Ronde (Drama Classics) - Softcover

Arthur Schnitzler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854595873 ISBN 13: 9781854595874

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Review:

The characters of Schnitzler's play talk endlessly of love, but it's sex they are after, and in the end, it is their search for it that spins them off a life-long dance. The moment he finishes with the young maid, the soldier returns to the dance hall. The young wife returns to her husband after her dalliance with the young man. The Count surely is reunited with his friend Louis, uncertain whether or not anything happened with the sleepy prostitute, who reminds him of someone he has met long ago. Was he once the young soldier of the first scene, completing the circle? In the end, Schnitzler's world is not so much an immoral one as it is a society of dissatisfied beings. Rain Taxi Review Of Books

About the Author:

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1930), the Austrian author and doctor, is probably best known for his plays 'La Ronde' and 'Liebelei'. His early years were marked by a particular interest in the emergent science of psychology and his writings anticipate Freud's psychopathological theories. Stephen Unwin founded the English Touring Theatre in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1854595873
• ISBN 13: 9781854595874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128