rni#

36.
luch
ins
X
Ahentenen I I. Se eeee
Extract from
Evening Post
New York, U. S.A.
2 6 O0l. 1931
Schnitzler Novel 40
WHE death last week of Arthur
PL-LADELPESU
Schnitzler, the noted Viennese
novelist and playwright, came almost
simultaneously with the announcement
by Simon & Schuster of the publica¬
PFILADRLPFNA PE
tion of what was probably his last
short novel, Flight Into Darkness.“
It is interesting that the last work
of the typically light-hearted Viennese
NAV 2 8 1931
who wrote The Affairs of Anatole“
and The Green Cockatoo“ should be
a morbid study of a mind in the throes
of disintegration and madness. Flight
Into Darkness“ will be published

Thursday.

S
#y vork aveb
§ —
B
— Schnitzler Novel
THE death last week öf Arthur
4 Schnitzler, the hoted Viennese
novelist and playwright, came almost
simultaneousiy with th announcement
by Simon & Schuster of the publica¬
tion of what was probably bis last

short novel, Flight Into (Dhskness.“

It is interesting that tb# last work
The last photogreph of Arthur
of the typically light- Aarted Viennese
Schnitzier, uhose"Flight Into, Dar
who wrote The Alaiks öf Anatole“
ness“ (Simon & Schuster) wast ld
published.
and The Green Codkatoo“ should bei
a morbid study of a mind in the throes
of disintegration and madness. Flighen
AInto „Darkness“ will be published
Thufsday.
N T TTLRS
A VORK EVE Ser
OCT 2S 1921
B00K NOTES
26 SCTBR.
Schnitzler Novél
The last novel by Arthur Schnitz¬
MHE death last week of Arthur
ier, who died in Vienna last Föcke,
1 Schnitzler, the noted Viennese
Ia to be publshed today hy Simon 8
novellst and playwright, came almost
Schuster. It is called Flight Into
Darkness.“ A book of only 152
simultaneously with the announcement
Poses, It is a study of a comples
by Simon & Schuster of the publica,
persecution-mania during which the
reader is made to forget his own
tion of what was probably his las
identity and to enter into the dark,
short novel, Flight Into Darkness.
slowly maddening mind of the hero,
It is interesting that the last work
Robert. The novel required two
years to write.
of the typically light-hearted Viennes
who wrote The Affairs of Anatole
and The Green Cockatoo“ should be
a morbid study of a mind in the throcs
of disintegration and madgess. Flight
Into Darkness“ will #e puhl###d
Inursday.
#

WEM TORR TIMEN.
2# OCTBR.
B00K NOTES
thur Schnitz¬
The last novel by
ler, who died in
is to be publishe
Schuster
Darkn
pages
persec
read
ider
8
Al
of
For
one
complex persecution
who feared incipient mental decay,
and whose imaginatien, brooding on
the fear, conjures new and more
complicated delusions. The fantasy
that he has been a murderer, that
his associates are plotting his as¬
sassination, that confinement in 8
madhouse is imminent, drive Robert
into ecstasies of torture. In thus
tracing down the steady hopeless
crashing of a mind, Schnitzler closes
his career with à novelle of hypnotio
power, and one that penetrates the
abysses of deranged mentality.
Simon & Schuster publish this last
work today.
One of the very few infallible ways
of breaking into print is to meet a
writer with a zest for “telling all.“
One like Harry Kemp, for example,
who, in Love Among the Cape
Enders,“ from Macaulay, tells the
story of the Provincetown in much
more breath-taking episodic fashion
than Stella Hanau and Helen
Deutsch dare to employ in their
more formal and more believable
history.
Kemp’s novel has the added at¬
traction of being a guessing game
as well, for, in telling the weak¬
nesses of arty people, he carefully.
covers up their names. But not too
deeply, let me add in haste, for easy
recovery in case you like the ghoulish
flavor to your reading. Bill Travers,
America’s greatest dramatist, is not
completel