Plačiai užmerktos akys by Arthur Schnitzler

Schnitzler kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death. In 1903, he married Olga Gussmann, alias Dina Marius, an aspiring actress and singer 20 years his junior with whom he had two children the couple divorced in 1921. His prolific list of other works included more plays, novels, and collections of short stories. It also incurred much anti-Semitic comment, and Schnitzler was dismissed from the regiment where he had done military medical service.

His satirical 1901 novella Leutnant Gustl (English translation: None but the Brave), was the first European masterpiece written as a stream-of-consciousness interior monologue. As a member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung-Wien), Schnitzler experimented with format as well as social conventions. Although successful, Reigen was highly controversial for its frank depiction of sexuality, and was banned in several cities. His work Reigen (Round Dance, 1897), a cycle of 10 dramatic dialogues, inspired numerous stage and screen adaptations, including The Merry-Go-Round (Der Reigen, 1920) Circle of Love (1964) and the famous La Ronde (1950). He first won literary recognition in 1891 with a series of one-act plays. He practiced medicine for many years, especially psychiatry, but he considered writing his primary career. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1879 and received his medical degree in 1885. He had a brother, Julius and a sister, Gisela. His parents were Luise (Markbreiter) and Johann Schnitzler, an internationally renowned physician.

(Bowker Author Biography) - biography from Dream Story … ( more)Īrthur Schnitzler was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. 3 and 5) and is credited with consciously introducing elements of modern psychology into his works. Schnitzler has also been linked with Freud (see Vols. In his most famous story, Lieutenant Gustl (1901), Schnitzler employs the stream-of-consciousness technique in an exposition of the follies and gradual disintegration of society in fin de siecle Vienna. He combined the naturalist's devotion to fact with the impressionist's interest in nuance in other words, he told the truth' (Modern German Literature). Henry Hatfield calls Schnitzler 'second only to Hofmannsthal among the Austrian writers of his generation and one of the most underrated of German authors. As a Jew, Schnitzler was sensitive to the problems of anti-Semitism, which he explored in the play Professor Bernhardi (1913), seen in New York in a performance by the Vienna Burgtheater in 1968. Reigen, a series of ten dialogues linking people of various social classes through their physical desire for one another, has been filmed many times as La Ronde. He chose themes of an erotic, romantic, or social nature, expressed with clarity, irony, and subtle wit. Arthur Schnitzler, Viennese playwright, novelist, short story writer, and physician, was a sophisticated writer much in vogue in his time.

Plačiai užmerktos akys by Arthur Schnitzler