Bachelors: Novellas and Stories

Bachelors: Novellas and Stories
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Scarcely anyone understands the psychology of men's relationship with womenâ€•in all its complexity, ambivalence, and frequent perversityâ€•better than the turn-of-the-century Viennese writer and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler. Like Vienna itself, birthplace of much of twentieth-century thought in art, philosophy, and psychology, Schnitzler's sensibility is profoundly modern, even postmodern. He probes and records the illusions and delusions, the dreams and desires, the split between the social self and the inner self that are characteristic of the self-alienated man of his timeâ€•and ours. In Margret Schaefer's third collection of newly translated fiction from Schnitzler, we find him focusing a clear and unforgiving eye on the minds of men who desire, fantasize about, and try to relate to women. Young or old, they are all bachelorsâ€•a young officer (Lieutenant Gustl), a socially desirable lawyer (The Murderer), a middle-aged physician (Doctor Graesler), an aging rouÃ© (Casanova's Homecoming). All are looking for women. Yet these are not love stories. Although Schnitzler's topic is relationships, his theme here as elsewhere is isolationâ€•and the losses, fears, self-doubts, and self-absorption that make it inescapable. For no matter how much social and erotic contact the men in these tales have with women, in the end they cannot escape their own terrifying aloneness.
Country USA
Brand Ivan R. Dee
Manufacturer Ivan R. Dee
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-08-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781566636117

Country	USA
Brand	Ivan R. Dee
Manufacturer	Ivan R. Dee
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-08-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781566636117

Bachelors: Novellas and Stories

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