Arthur Schnitzler, Author, Richard L. Simon, Translator Sun and Moon Press $9.95 (72p) ISBN 978-1-55713-176-8
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire. Bored at the opera, egocentric young Lieutenant Gustl contemplates which women are flirting...
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Arthur Schnitzler, Author, John Simon, Author, Margret Schaefer, Translator , trans. from the German by Margret Schaefer, foreword by John Simon. Ivan R. Dee $28.50 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56663-386-4
Though set against the backdrop of the fading Hapsburg Empire, Schnitzler's stories are startlingly contemporary in their outlook, and this collection of new translations is sure to win the Austrian author, who died in 1931, new admirers. In...
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Arthur Schnitzler, Author, Margret Schaefer, Translator , trans. from the German by Margret Schaefer. Ivan R. Dee $27.50 (268p) ISBN 978-1-56663-611-7
Four gloomy tales of male vanity and self-deception by Viennese author Schnitzler (1862–1931) form the third volume (after Night Games
and Desire and Delusion
) of his work brought out by Ivan R. Dee and Schaefer (who provides a sketchy...
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Arthur Schnitzler, Author, Otto P. Schinnerer, Translator Sun and Moon Press $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55713-081-5
This reprint of a 1927 American edition gives a new generation of English-speaking readers the opportunity to discover the Viennese novelist and dramatist's (1862-1931) haunting erotic fantasy, which blends dreams and reality. Summoned to a patient's
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Arthur Schnitzler, trans. from the German by Alexander Starritt. New York Review Books, $14.95 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-68137-084-2
Completed over a century ago but unpublished until now, Schnitzler’s droll, engrossing short novel of artists in 1890s Vienna tempers its satire with keen insight. The elderly Eduard Saxberger wrote plays and poetry in his youth but has long since...
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