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Hands Around
Theatrical classic, filmed by famed director Max Ophüls as La Ronde, unfolds in a series of 10 interlinked scenes between 2 people who are about to make love. One of the lovers in each scene returns to partner a different lover in the next, until the encounters come full circle.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
October 3rd 1995
by Dover Publications
(first published 1895)
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Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde (Reigen in German), written in 1897 but not performed until the winter of 1920/21, looks at a chain of ten sexual encounters. While known by several names depending on the language of translation, the title, named after a circular dance, often goes by La Ronde since France was the one country Schnitzler allowed the play to be performed after the initial riots and complaints in Berlin and Vienna. An English version, translated as Hands Around, can be fou...more
Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde (Reigen in German), written in 1897 but not performed until the winter of 1920/21, looks at a chain of ten sexual encounters. While known by several names depending on the language of translation, the title, named after a circular dance, often goes by La Ronde since France was the one country Schnitzler allowed the play to be performed after the initial riots and complaints in Berlin and Vienna. An English version, translated as Hands Around, can be fou...more
A humorous series of dialogues in which a "world" of characters progressively sleep with each other (the whore with the soldier, followed by the soldier with the parlor maid, followed by the parlor maid with her employer, etc.). The play explores the breaking or enforcement of class barriers, and the fetishization of people outside a character's social world. It also brings up interesting questions of love and lust, and whether people "sleep around" because of loneliness or mere boredom.
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Non voglio mettere in dubbio il valore dell'opera che, per l'epoca in cui è stata scritta, è certamente scandalosa e coraggiosa. E' lo stesso Schnitzler ad ammettere che "qualcosa di più irrappresentabile non s'è ancora visto". Infatti, come veniamo a sapere dalla prefazione, alla prima rappresentazione seguirono un processo, interpellanze in parlamento e tumulti in sala. Tuttavia, a me non è piaciuta. Non è che un giudizio personale. Ci ho trovato (il che, dirà qualcuno, è normale trattandosi d...more
German edition – German review:
Schnitzlers Reigen wollte ich schon ewig mal lesen. Nicht nur weil ich einen Faible für die Wiener Moderne habe sondern auch weil ich Sleeping Around von Mark Ravenhill et al. gelesen habe und das ebenso wie Patrick Marbers Closer stark an Schnitzlers Stück angelehnt sein soll.
Ich muss sagen, ich bin nicht enttäuscht worden. Schnitzler schneidet quer durch die gesellschaftlichen Schichten und entlarvt herrlich die bürgerliche Doppelmoral, der zufolge Männer ruhig i...more
Schnitzlers Reigen wollte ich schon ewig mal lesen. Nicht nur weil ich einen Faible für die Wiener Moderne habe sondern auch weil ich Sleeping Around von Mark Ravenhill et al. gelesen habe und das ebenso wie Patrick Marbers Closer stark an Schnitzlers Stück angelehnt sein soll.
Ich muss sagen, ich bin nicht enttäuscht worden. Schnitzler schneidet quer durch die gesellschaftlichen Schichten und entlarvt herrlich die bürgerliche Doppelmoral, der zufolge Männer ruhig i...more
Über den "Reigen" gibt es ja nun wirklich nicht viel Neues zu berichten.
Das Buch thematisiert in wundervollerweise die Doppelmoral des Menschen; die ewiggleiche "Dynamik" des Beischlafs und der Methoden zu selbigem zu gelangen. Oder seinen Folgen.
Es handelt sich bei diesem Theaterstück (das 1921 mit einem Theater-Bann belegt wurde und bis 1982 nicht aufgeführt werden durfte) um 10 Dialoge mit grundsätzlich gleichem Skelett: Erst die Abweisung durch die Frau / der Beischlaf / Ablehnung durch den...more
Das Buch thematisiert in wundervollerweise die Doppelmoral des Menschen; die ewiggleiche "Dynamik" des Beischlafs und der Methoden zu selbigem zu gelangen. Oder seinen Folgen.
Es handelt sich bei diesem Theaterstück (das 1921 mit einem Theater-Bann belegt wurde und bis 1982 nicht aufgeführt werden durfte) um 10 Dialoge mit grundsätzlich gleichem Skelett: Erst die Abweisung durch die Frau / der Beischlaf / Ablehnung durch den...more
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I was expecting a twist the whole time but it just kept giving me more of the same. I wish there was a redeemable character somewhere in the play.
Potentially very interesting, but a lot of the impact will really depend on the actors and actresses involved. There's loads left to the imagination when it comes to character interaction, so it could be either a disaster or really good. It's definitely easy to understand why this play caused such a scandal.. very interesting if just for that. It's just that I felt the text was rather plain, and that made it more boring to read than it would be to watch.
ETA: On reread this made a lot more sense...more
ETA: On reread this made a lot more sense...more
Lo spettacolo più divertente della compagnia Baraccaeburattini!!!
See it performed at Soulpepper, it's brilliant.
how do i ?
weird.
but not bad weird.
weird.
but not bad weird.
I stopped because I didn't understand it very good. I hope to read it again and that I get it then. Maybe in a year or two.
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Interesting primarily because of the context of when it was written. Sexual links from person to person through ten people in ten scenes. Seemingly disillusioned with romance
This has potential as a performance but it could also be a disaster. The story is interesting with some imagination.
I hate the cover that has been put on this book. I'll need to read it again to remember why I liked it.
Only a 3 because I couldn't fully understand it.
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Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1879. He received his doctorate o...more
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Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1879. He received his doctorate o...more
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