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Book SynopsisThese artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.
Trade ReviewSimply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike. * The Review of Higher Education *
Startlingly...life's universal themes are all here: the craving for erotic fulfillment, the fragility of love, the yearning for wealth, and the abruptness of death...these stories are rock-solid. * Publishers Weekly *
One of the most distinctive and compelling voices of the early modernist movement is heard again in this elegant collection of nine urbane, perversely comic, deeply disturbing stories. * Kirkus *
Margret Schaefer's fresh translation of nine stories and novellas brings most back into print for the first time in decades. * The Dallas Morning News *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Foreword vii Part 2 Night Games 3 Part 3 The Dead Are Silent 83 Part 4 Blind Geronimo and His Brother 101 Part 5 A Farewell 125 Part 6 The Second 141 Part 7 Baron von Leisenbohg's Destiny 161 Part 8 The Widower 179 Part 9 Death of a Bachelor 190 Part 10 Dream Story 202
