Night Games And Other Stories and Novellas

"The characters in Schnitzler's fictional world are haunted chiefly not by reveries of simple sexual release, but rather by premonitions of their own extinction amid the familiar comforts of their lives--including the always-deceptive comforts of sexual fantasy.....Obsessive souls yearning half-consciously to be ransomed from their own comforts, dreaming of light and weightless bodies, exhibiting a curious contempt for their physical being and the familiar roles and objects that compose their social world: This is a tableau we are now as likely to encounter in a Microsoft ad as in a turn-of-the-century Viennese drawing room or masquerade party. The tales of Arthur Schnitzler--especially as rendered here in Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations--are many suggestive, allusive and dreamlike things. But they are most certainly not the work of a period writer.Schnitzler, Arthur is the author of 'Night Games And Other Stories and Novellas', published 2003 under ISBN 9781566635066 and ISBN 1566635063.