Arthur schnitzler, born may 15, 1862, vienna, austriadied october 21, 1931, vienna, austrian playwright and novelist known for his psychological dramas that dissect turnofthecentury viennese bourgeois life schnitzler, the son of a wellknown jewish physician, took a medical degree and practiced medicine for much of his life, interesting himself particularly in psychiatry. While known by several names depending on the language of translation, the title. Arthur schnitzler scandal at race, andrew barker, sex and character in schnitzlers fraulein else, german life and letters. Merrygoround reigen otto schenk, arthur schnitzler. It scrutinizes the sexual morality and class ideology of its day through successive encounters between pairs of characters before or after a sexual encounter. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate bestseller, scandalized viennese society, and a year later was censored. Outside the germanspeaking world, and even in it, arthur schnitzler has, for the last fifty years or so, been known chiefly as. There are ten characters altogether, each appearing in two adjacent scenes, forming an endless chain of sexual links across all the layers of viennese society.
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Arthur schnitzler was born at praterstrasse 16, leopoldstadt, vienna, capital of the austrian empire as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy of austriahungary. Bertha garlan gutenberg text schnitzler, arthur, 18621931. Schnitzler was adept at creating a single, precisely shaded mood in a oneact play or short story. International delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details.
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