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This collection, written at the turn of the century by Austrian Jewish playwright Schnitzler, consists of three light Viennese plays set in 1890A"La Ronde," "Annatol," and "Flirtation"Aand the dark, sinister one-act play "The Green Cockatoo," set in 1789 at a Paris cabaret-theater on the eve of the fall of the Bastille. The theme of all four is "the Pirandellian confusion between reality and illusion." In the Viennese plays, this is dramatized by an aimless search for the meaning of love and life through a series of sexual encounters, a search that can result in disillusionment and even death. Showing the sentimental and melancholic erotic escapades of egocentric libertines, Schnitzler offers psychological and sociological criticism of the decadent Viennese society in which he lived. For theater students and general readers, Schnitzler's dramatic works are worthy of this new translation, though the eroticism banned on stage during his time is no longer shocking. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.AMing-ming Shen Kuo, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, IN
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Austrian playwright Schnitzler was not prolific, but his few plays cut to the quick of the Viennese soul. Anatol, the first, presents a portrait in seven scenes of a charming, fashionably dressed, morally bankrupt young man. In The Green Cockatoo, set in Paris on the fateful day of July 14, 1789, Schnitzler uses the old regime's last hours analogically to critique the decadent hypocrisy of both late-eighteenth-century France and late-nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary. La Rondethanks to Max Ophuls' film, Schnitzler's best-known work--reveals the darkest recesses of the sexually ravenous Viennese heart. By today's standards, the play, which traces a circle of lovers, casual and otherwise, across Vienna, is tame, but in its day it was very shocking, even, to Austrian censors, crude and pornographic. Mueller's simple, graceful, sexy translations of those three plays and Flirtation capture well, in highly readable contemporary English, the full power and subversive edge of Schnitzler's work. Jack Helbig

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