16 results for '"SCHNITZLER,A"'

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...

In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period...

Tom Stoppard presents two works which explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behavior against their effects in practice...

A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global SouthWhere does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the...

In dieser Studie wird der Zionismus nicht primär als politische Bewegung betrachtet, sondern als eine 'Kulturpoetik' verstanden und analytisch fruchtbar gemacht. Das Verhältnis von Text und...

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think...

Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Oph"ls made his...

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets,...

Dal decadentismo di fine Ottocento al dopoguerra, attraverso alcune figure chiave del panorama culturale tedesco: Hofmannsthal e la crisi di valori della fin de siécle, Musil e l'importanza de "I...

Alongside his many major plays, Tom Stoppard has written several highly acclaimed translations and adaptations of works by other writers, which are collected together here for the first time,...

A National Book Award FinalistA "riveting" (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empireOn January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese...

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an...

« On a voulu être sympathiques, on a acheté des tulipes, ma femme m'a déguisé en type de gauche, mais la vérité est que je n'ai aucun self-control, je suis un caractériel pur... » La pièce Le Dieu du...