John Simon (Foreword)
Ivan R Dee, Inc 2008, Paperback, 288 pages, £9.99
Schnitzler is probably best known in the English-speaking world as the author of Dream Story [Traumnovelle], the book that Stanley Kubrick adapted as Eyes Wide Shut. While it’s not a disastrous failure as Kubrick’s film was, it’s no masterpiece either. It and the other stories here are somewhat melodramatic psychological pieces that carry with them a distinctive air of early 20th century Vienna, like heavy, musty curtains. Here the similarity is with Joseph Roth, although the stories lack Roth’s humour and lightness of touch.
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