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Bachelors
Arthur Schnitzler
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Description for Bachelors
Hardback. Young or old, they are all bachelors - a young officer (Lieutenant Gustl), a socially desirable lawyer (The Murderer), a middle-aged physician (Doctor Graesler), an aging rou (Casanova's Homecoming). This book focuses an eye on the minds of men who desire, fantasize about, and try to relate to women. Translator(s): Schaefer, Margret. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 532.
Scarcely anyone understands the psychology of men's relationship with women—in all its complexity, ambivalence, and frequent perversity—better than the turn-of-the-century Viennese writer and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler. Like Vienna itself, birthplace of much of twentieth-century thought in art, philosophy, and psychology, Schnitzler's sensibility is profoundly modern, even postmodern. He probes and records the illusions and delusions, the dreams and desires, the split between the social self and the inner self that are characteristic of the self-alienated man of his time—and ours. In Margret Schaefer's third collection of newly translated fiction from Schnitzler, we find him focusing a clear and unforgiving eye ... Read more
Scarcely anyone understands the psychology of men's relationship with women—in all its complexity, ambivalence, and frequent perversity—better than the turn-of-the-century Viennese writer and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler. Like Vienna itself, birthplace of much of twentieth-century thought in art, philosophy, and psychology, Schnitzler's sensibility is profoundly modern, even postmodern. He probes and records the illusions and delusions, the dreams and desires, the split between the social self and the inner self that are characteristic of the self-alienated man of his time—and ours. In Margret Schaefer's third collection of newly translated fiction from Schnitzler, we find him focusing a clear and unforgiving eye ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636117
SKU
V9781566636117
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About Arthur Schnitzler
Schaefer's prizewinning earlier translations of Arthur Schnitzler's novellas and stories, in Night Games and Desire and Delusion (both published by Ivan R. Dee), were widely praised ("Superlative fiction."—Kirkus Reviews). She lives in Berkeley, California.
Reviews for Bachelors
An undervalued genius.
John Simon
In Margret Schaefer's superb translations, Arthur Schnitzler reemerges as a riveting storyteller.
Sandra M. Gilbert Schnitzler really can see into souls and give voice to the chaos he finds there.
Leo Carey
The New Yorker
The tales of Arthur Schnitzler—especially as rendered in Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations—are many suggestive, ... Read more
John Simon
In Margret Schaefer's superb translations, Arthur Schnitzler reemerges as a riveting storyteller.
Sandra M. Gilbert Schnitzler really can see into souls and give voice to the chaos he finds there.
Leo Carey
The New Yorker
The tales of Arthur Schnitzler—especially as rendered in Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations—are many suggestive, ... Read more