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Continuing with my sort-of-biweekly foreign movie posts for this year… For more foreign movies, check out Caroline’s World Cinema Series 2012 and Richard’s monthly Foreign Film Festival round-up. Note: See this post for more detail on the play and storyline. The elegantly structured Arthur Schnitzler play La Ronde lends itself to a movie adaptation and […]
A print of the 1900 private circulation of Der Reigen Picture sourceArthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde (Reigen in German), written in 1897 but not performed until the winter of 1920/21, looks at a chain of ten sexual encounters. While known by several names depending on the language of translation, the title, named after a circular […]
One “consideration” from Book of Aphorisms and Considerations by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Carl Richard Mueller. The reposeful effect of a work of art is primarily due to the fact that that which we call chance is totally excluded from it. In the same way it seems that chance is also excluded from history (insofar […]
Previous posts on The Road to the Open: Fin-de-siècle Vienna My art is mediocre and so is my character Grotesque and repulsive peculiarities The version of the book I read was the translation by Horace Samuel, which can be found here. (Note that a couple of pages are missing in the scan) I’ve finally finished […]
Even though I’ve only been able to read through Chapter 4 of The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler I’m thoroughly enjoying it. Schnitzler paints a complex and conflicted portrait of fin-de-siècle Vienna. People defer to the main character, George von Wergenthin-Recco, because of his title yet he feels out of place in either […]
I just finished the first chapter of Arthur Schnitzler’s The Road to the Open and I’m enjoying the immersion into the world of early 1900s Vienna. “Enjoy” might not be the right word, though, since the world he describes can be a brutal place, especially for Jews. Anti-Semitism permeates society, as one character adroitly decries […]
I’m not sure what my posting schedule will be like the next few weeks. Work is going to take most of my time and I’ll be travelling with the family when I can, so posting will be hit or miss depending on time and access. I enjoy writing about what I read because it makes […]