Summary
Arthur Schnitzler: Anatol Early plays
The great "melancholic of love" Anatol, in the one-act cycle of the same name, famous representative of Viennese modernism Arthur Schnitzler, through seven scenes, philosophizes about love, jealousy and death. These three themes became central in Schntizler's early plays, but they continued in his later stage of creativity. Trembling tense nerves in the experiences of love awaken the true depths of life: life's thirst, life's lies and life's fear. This book can be read, as Hugo von Hofmannsthal says, and as "an eerie allegory - among the nervously chattering little figures from the shadows peeps the meddling of life: meaninglessness, mystery, loneliness, deaf and dead misunderstanding between those who love each other; gloomy consciousness: a premonition of missed infinities, muted, lost wonders; and many of those things that fall like rings of rust on the too tender souls.“
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