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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
These artful new translations of nine of Arthur Schnitzler's most
important stories and novellas-including "Dream Story," on which
Stanley Kubrick based his widely acclaimed film Eyes Wide
Shut-reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as
literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. The
psychologically complex and morally ambiguous tales of love and
adultery, dream and reality, desire and death in Night Games prove
Schnitzler to be fully the equal of his great contemporaries Kafka,
Rilke, and Musil, and justify Freud's praise of his knowledge of
depth psychology. The collection includes powerful early works such
as "The Dead Are Silent" and "Geronimo and His Brother" as well as
late masterpieces such as "Night Games" and "Dream Story."
Schnitzler creates memorable characters and makes original and
masterful use of inner monologue, "stream of consciousness," and
unrealiable narrator-techniques that he was among the first, if not
the first, to use-to explore the complexities of their inner lives
even as he delineates their social world with elegance and wit. The
results are comic, tragic, powerful, and psychologically compelling
tales of love, sex, and death that often surprise. They are as
fresh and relevant to us today, a century later, as when they were
first written.
The best of Pushkin Press on Venice, the iconic city. Beautifully
designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats and exclusive to Pushkin
Press, this box set contains the Venice literature must-reads: the
contrasting voices of Paul Morand, Regis Debray, Henry James,
Arthur Schnitzler and Petr Kral on the city which leaves no-one
indifferent. Contains: Venices by Paul Morand, Loving Venice, by
Petr Kral, Against Venice by Regis Debray, Letters from the Palazzo
Barbaro by Henry James, Casanova's Return to Venice by Arthur
Schnitzler. EXCLUSIVE TO THIS BOXSET: The first ever translation
from Antal Szerb's The Third Tower, the travelogue which gave birth
to Journey by Moonlight. Szerb's notes on Venice are translated by
award-winning Len Rix. 'I cannot imagine a happier Christmas
present for any lover, or loather, of Venice' - Jan Morris 'All
lovers of Venice who also love good writing should have the Pushkin
Press's In Search of Venice, a handsome boxed set of six books on
the city, including Henry James's Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro,
a delightful pamphlet by Antal Szerb, as well as Regis Debray's
contrarian Against Venice' -John Banville, Wall Street Journal
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La Ronde (Paperback)
Arthur Schnitzler; Translated by Nicholas Rudall
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First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur
Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class
ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between
pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an
immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year
later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and
worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that "you have learned through
intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive
introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious
work on other persons." By choosing characters across the social
spectrum, La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual contact
transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudall's new translation
sensitively captures the language distinctions of the
representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably
playable script. New in the Plays for Performance series.
Dying, Flight into Darkness, and Fraulein Else reveal the depths of
Schnitzler's psychological and moral understanding of life as well
as the masterful storytelling techniques that immerse the reader
into the very center of his characters' thoughts and emotions. The
tales of Arthur Schnitzler especially as rendered in Margret
Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations are many suggestive,
allusive, and dreamlike things. But they are most certainly not the
work of a period writer. Chris Lehmann, Washington Post Book World
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Late Fame (Paperback)
Arthur Schnitzler; Translated by Alexander Starritt
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Winner of the Newbery Honor: the delightful tale of a wandering
good samaritan dog, by the author of Shrek! Dominic has decided it
is time for a change. So he packs up his hats and his piccolo, and
sets off into the unknown. But no sooner does he feel the air on
his snout and the grass beneath his paws, than disaster strikes: he
encounters the dreaded Doomsday Gang. But Dominic is not one to
complain - and nor is he one to lose a fight. As legend of his
victory over the villains spreads, more and more creatures turn to
him for help: a 158-year-old turtle, a heartbroken wild boar, and a
family of grateful geese all encounter Dominic's heroism and
generosity. But his trials are far from over: the Doomsday Gang is
alive and kicking, and how can one young dog face a mob of
hooligans alone? "Steig's books are like perfect smooth stones,
complete in themselves, with no seams to be found... he always has
the skill to bring together what seems to be a lot of
spur-of-the-moment choices and make them into stories that land so
perfectly and satisfyingly and feel so inevitable in their endings"
- Jon Klassen, author of This Is Not My Hat
Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual
sketches, as "completely unprintable, " and indeed its premiere in
1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made
his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La
Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and
betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a
succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy
chain. The Blue Room is a meditation on men and women, sex and
social class, actors and the theater. With deft insight about the
gap between the sexes, The Blue Room takes the treacherous Freudian
subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet
landscape that is both eternal and completely up-to-date.
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Dream Story (Hardcover)
Arthur Schnitzler; Introduction by Frederic Raphael; Translated by J.M.Q. Davies
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Like his Austrian contemporary Sigmund
Freud, the doctor and writer Arthur Schnitzler was a bold pioneer
in exploring the dark tangled roots of human consciousness. His
novella Dream Story tells the tale of a young married man who,
after a discussion with his wife about their fantasises,
experiences an eery reverie through Vienna's underbelly.
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Dream Story (Paperback)
Arthur Schnitzler; Introduction by Frederic Raphael; Translated by J.M.Q. Davies
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Arthur Schnitzler is probably most famous for La Ronde, a play too scandalous to publish or perform in his own lifetime but whose daisy-chain of couplings inspired both Max Ophuls's classic film and David Hare's modernized version, The Blue Room, which played to sell-out audiences in the West End and on Broadway. Dream Story is an equally erotic work, in which a married couple are first traumatized and then achieve a new depth of understanding by confessing to each other their sexual fantasies, dream-like adventures and might-have-beens ... Taking us on a guided tour of Vienna's seedy cafés, red-light district, decadent villas, hospitals and morgue, Schnitzler brilliantly uncovers the violence and depravity lurking beneath the surface of civilized society. Dream Story is the inspiration for the film Eyes Wide Shut, co-written by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael.
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Playing With Love (Liebelei)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, P. Morton Shand
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