Arthur Schnitzler

«—No te m’escaparàs. M’hi has de dur. —Però amic meu... —Deixa’m fer. Ja sé que és “perillós”... Potser és això precisament el que m’atreu.» Qui parla d’aquesta manera és Fridolin, un metge vienès jove, feliç i ben acomodat, amb èxit, casat i pare d’una nena, que durant uns carnavals se sent arrossegat cap a un món …

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.