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Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas

John Simon

These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
  • Publish Date: Mar 8th, 2003
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.92in - 4.42in - 0.85in - 0.81lb
  • EAN: 9781566635066
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Literary

About the Author

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Austrian physician, dramatist, and novelist, was among the most sophisticated writers of his time. Margret Schaefer, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, has written on Wilde, von Kleist, and Kafka as well as on the history of psychoanalysis and psychology. She lives in Berkeley, California. Her translation of Arthur Schnitzler's Night Games won the 2002 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for a book of translations published by a Northern California author.

Praise for this book

Startlingly...life's universal themes are all here: the craving for erotic fulfillment, the fragility of love, the yearning for wealth, and the abruptness of death...these stories are rock-solid.
Margret Schaefer's fresh translation of nine stories and novellas brings most back into print for the first time in decades.
Simply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike.
One of the most distinctive and compelling voices of the early modernist movement is heard again in this elegant collection of nine urbane, perversely comic, deeply disturbing stories.