Arthur Schnitzler

Historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s „Reigen.“ This edition presents a comprehensive preface analyzing above all the text genesis and the complex printing history, the manuscripts with transcriptions, a print text with a display of textual variants and a commentary. Historisch-kritische Edition von Arthur Schnitzlers „Reigen“. Der Band bietet eine ausführliche Vorbemerkung, die insbesondere Textgenese und Druckgeschichte erläutert, darüber hinaus Faksimiles des Manuskripts, die entsprechende Transkription, einen Lesetext inklusive Apparat sowie einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Kommentar.

"The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The other plays in this collection explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, always with a sharp, non-judgemental awareness of the complexity and mystery of the psyche. Acquainted with Freud and his circle, Schnitzler probes beneath the surface of his characters to uncover emotions they barely understand. And in the tragicomedy Professor Bernhardi, Schnitzler addresses the growing anti-Semitism of the period."--Jacket.

La Ronde is one of Arthur Schnitzler?s most controversial works. The historical-critical edition provides an introduction to its history, reconstructs the provenance of the manuscript, and presents a facsimile of the manuscript along with a transcription, a print text, and a commentary. The edition offers a new foundation for the study of the central text in Schnitzler?s oeuvre.

Paracelsus (1898) has the theme "All the world's a stage" and combines it with hypnotism. The green cookatoo (1898) is an intermingling of illusion and reality. Marionettes and The puppeteer have as a theme the tendency of some human beings to treat others as mere playthings or puppets. The great puppet show features both puppets-on-a-sting and "real" characters.

189 p. ; 18 cm

Tragicomedy set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Philandering husband shocked to discover that his wife has acquired a young lover, and he feels honor-bound to challenge him to a duel.