Arthur Schnitzler

Drømmenovelle av Arthur Schnitzler ble gitt ut i 1926. Boka ble utgitt på norsk av Gyldendal i 1999. Den handler om ekteparet Fridolin og Albertine som drømmer om å ha forhold utenfor ekteskapet. Men denne drømmen endrer forholdet mellom dem. Boka er grunnlaget for filmen Eyes Wide Shut av Stanley Kubrick.

Fräulein Else is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds …

A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism, The Road into the Open (Der Weg ins Freie, 1908) is a remarkable novel by a major Austrian writer of the early twentieth century. Set in fin-de-siècle Austria—the cafés, salons, and musical …

These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.