Desire and Delusion - by Arthur Schnitzler (Paperback)

About the Book

The second collection of Schnitzler's prose fiction follows on the award-winning Night Games, Ms Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas, acknowledged masterpieces.

Book Synopsis

The second collection of Schnitzler's prose fiction follows on the award-winning Night Games, Ms Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas, acknowledged masterpieces.

Review Quotes

Beautifully translated. Each novella offers rich examples of the darkly introspective and self-destructive stream of consciousness Schnitzler employed.

Clear and accessible versions of these haunting, riveting stories.

In Margret Schaefer's superb translations Arthur Schnitzler re-emerges as a riveting storyteller.

One reads the stories with suspense, pleasure, amusement.... [Schnitzler] can be read with pleasure and ease.

Schnitzler and Schaefer-a perfect marriage, made in Vienna.

She is readable, relaxed and on the whole the best guide for English readers to the nondramatic works of the man whom Freud admired and held in awe as his literary doppelganger.

The tales of Arthur Schnitzler-especially as rendered in Margret Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations-are many suggestive, allusive, and dreamlike things. But they are most certainly not the work of a period writer.

These three dark novellas show Schnitzler's mastery as a guide to the neurotic, death-obsessed world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.

This extraordinary portrayal of psychic shock and disintegration is, simply, one of the greatest modern short novels.

Translator Margret Schaefer [offers a] concise and informative introduction.... Schnitzler's characters-abrim with sensibility, but devoid of common sense-seem so contemporary.