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Relaciones y soledades
Recuperamos la edición de Relaciones y soledades que había sido publicada años atrás y que, al cuidado de Joan Parra, recoge una selección de las reflexiones de Arthur Schnitzler sobre una multitud de asuntos con arreglo a un triple su interés literario, su encaje en las corrientes de pensamiento de la época y su vigencia temática desde una perspectiva contemporánea. Temas como el sentimiento, la voluntad, la soledad, el amor, la verdad y la mentira, la inteligencia y la estupidez, la política, el humor o el arte, entre otros muchos, encuentran espacio en esta selección, en donde la frescura y la brillantez del escritor vienés no dejan de admirarnos.
- GenresNonfiction
136 pages, Paperback
Published November 3, 2021
About the author
Arthur Schnitzler
971 books581 followersArthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
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December 2, 2024
Desilusão. Nada convincente esta tentativa de aforismos uma pouco mais longos.
O teatro e as novelas de Arthur Schnitzler são leituras muito interessantes que nao deixo re aconselhar.
O teatro e as novelas de Arthur Schnitzler são leituras muito interessantes que nao deixo re aconselhar.
November 6, 2022
Une bonne partie de ses réflexions manque d'inspiration ... Autant il critiquait les critiques que je trouvait à maintes reprises ses reproches aussi valides pour son propre texte.
Je me souviens avoir eu la même remarque en lisant à d'autres auteurs qui ont cette ambition de produire une collection d'aphorismes pareille. Mais souvent on croit qu'en composant deux réflexions qui font accourir l'attention générale qu'on peut en faire un livre, chose complètement illogique...
J'aurai mieux fait de relire Pensées sur la justice de Pascal ...
Caso Cerrado
Je me souviens avoir eu la même remarque en lisant à d'autres auteurs qui ont cette ambition de produire une collection d'aphorismes pareille. Mais souvent on croit qu'en composant deux réflexions qui font accourir l'attention générale qu'on peut en faire un livre, chose complètement illogique...
J'aurai mieux fait de relire Pensées sur la justice de Pascal ...
Caso Cerrado
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April 10, 2023Il y a du bon et du mauvais 🤷.
C'est toujours moche tho de se penser sage et au-dessus de la mêlée. Je n'estime pas ce genre de personnes.
J'éviterai de faire un commentaire sur le sexisme et le ridicule d'un homme pensant comprendre les femmes.
(Ce commentaire vaut aussi pour les aphorismes de Wilde)
À bien y penser, se prêter au jeu des aphorismes est déjà un aveu de limitation de l'imagination et de sagesse.
C'est toujours moche tho de se penser sage et au-dessus de la mêlée. Je n'estime pas ce genre de personnes.
J'éviterai de faire un commentaire sur le sexisme et le ridicule d'un homme pensant comprendre les femmes.
(Ce commentaire vaut aussi pour les aphorismes de Wilde)
À bien y penser, se prêter au jeu des aphorismes est déjà un aveu de limitation de l'imagination et de sagesse.
May 6, 2018
Los aforismos de este libro son muy buenos a la hora de explicar la mente humana.
El egoísmo y el amor que tiene cada individuo sale a la luz. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.
Además explica de una forma lógica el ámbito sexual del hombre y la mujer.
El egoísmo y el amor que tiene cada individuo sale a la luz. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.
Además explica de una forma lógica el ámbito sexual del hombre y la mujer.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews