36. Flucht
die
Finsternis
Leneen een ee en eneeen
rines Star
eincinnati C
Nov 3-31
The Mental Disintegration
of a Persecution-Maniac
Simnanmmmmmmmmmmatmmmimimmmmmimmmmmmmmmmnannmanmmmmmimmmmee“
Flight Into Darkness,“ by Ar¬
Vienna he is disturbed to ind
thur Schnitzler (Simon and
that one of his eyelids has been
Schuster).
behaving rather strangely and
his troublesome sub-consciousness
begins to work. Never quite rid of
THIS short novel is the first
the suspicion that his rest has
new work from the pen
only postponed what might have
of the late Arthur Schnitzler to
been the first sign of incipient in¬
appear in two years. It is typie¬
sanity, he is further agitated by
ally Schnitzleiian—concise, world¬
the fact that he is unable to re¬
ly, pessimistic, phrased with ele¬
member the last scene of a final
gant simplicity and bearing
parting with his mistress.
gracefully the somewhat ungainly
From this hypo-chondriacal be¬
burden of Dr. Freud; and it com¬
ginning the mental dissolution
bines the scientist’s clarity of
begins. If he is in fact insane,
perception with the intuitive psy¬
he wonders, is it altogether im¬
chological penetration of the art¬
prebable that he murdered his
ist and the mastery of the novel¬
mistress? He has never seen her
ette technique which the Germans
since that parting years agol Pos¬
and Austrians have made their
sessed by this torturing thought,
peculiar forte.
he is gradually led into specula¬
There is in this novelette, as in
tion over whether he was not re¬
other somewhat similar works by
sponsible as well for the death of
the same author, an excision of
his wife. Perhaps he murdered
superfluous detail which gives it
her, too. Finally he begins to
an unusual intensity, although
suspect his brother, Otto, of plot¬
the general, if not the exact
ting his death. In a moment of
nature of the ending is never,
mental stress he had once forced
and is not meant to be, in doubt.
Otto to accept a document au¬
Although Flight Into Dark¬
thorizing him to kill his brother
ness“ is by no means as colorless
should the latter lose his reason,
tale as the phrase “case his¬
and absolving him of blame. To
tory“ might imply, in outline that
ease Robert’s mind, Otto had
is precisely what it is—a study of
agreed to keep the ridiculous pa¬
the development of a persecution¬
per. Now, could it be that Otto,
mania. Robert, the hero—per¬
insane himself, was planning to
haps it is more fitting to call him
carry out the terms of this paper?
the victim—whose rather vague
—etc., etc., until the persecution¬
eccupation in some official ca¬
mania is dissolved in a logically
pacity had been interrupted sev¬
tragic coniclusion.
eral years after the death of His
In outline this doubtless sounds
wife by a serious nervous break¬
tediously ellnical. But it isn't, for
down, had been ordered by his
it has been expertly humanized,
brother, a famens physician, to
and far from having the tone of a
take a six-months’ rest in the
case history in mental disintegra¬
country. It is here, in a resort in
tion, it creates an atmosphere of
the Austrian Alps, tnat we first
realism and human drama suffi¬
meet him, several days before his
ciently potent to make one im¬
cure is ended.
mune to whatever odors of the
nthe eve of his return to
clinic still linger about.
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urie
N01
93s
An important book of the week is
Arthur Schnitzler’sFlight Into
Darkness. Schnitzler writes graph¬
ically of a man’s descent into mad¬
ness. The book is psychologically
clear, and tells a story that holds
one with morbid fascination,
„4
box 6/3
NUV- 3 1831
„ —Pole.
England’s Restoratio
England of the Restoration is pre- Tro
dri
sented in Arthur Bryant’s King „pe
Charles the Second.“
Charles in the tempetuous days
of exile, Charles as king, maintain¬ Sre
are
ing a delicate balance of control
the
over the country, forms the core of
sue
the book around which Bryant builds
the details of the restoration period.
ing
Throughout the story are found
evidences of Pepys’ notations.
St
An important book of the week is
Arthur Schnitzier’s Flight Into
Darkness.“ Schnitzier writes graph¬
ically of a man’s descent into mad¬
ness. The book is psychologicallyA
clear, and tells a story, that holdsithe
one with merbid fascination.
lege
Also puiblished this week are Gals¬
worthy's new play, The Roof;“stoc
+Roosevelt in the Rough, by Jack L.
Willis; anld Enterprise,“ by Harold dept
S. Vanderbilt.
by
Democra
Fra
cv 3-6
r
1's de:
ook is psych
id tells a stor
morbid fasel¬
d this week are
Galsworthy’s new play,Th
:# Roosevelt in the Rough#
7o1
y Uack Willis: and Enterprizé,“
by Harold S. Vanderbilt.
die
Finsternis
Leneen een ee en eneeen
rines Star
eincinnati C
Nov 3-31
The Mental Disintegration
of a Persecution-Maniac
Simnanmmmmmmmmmmatmmmimimmmmmimmmmmmmmmmnannmanmmmmmimmmmee“
Flight Into Darkness,“ by Ar¬
Vienna he is disturbed to ind
thur Schnitzler (Simon and
that one of his eyelids has been
Schuster).
behaving rather strangely and
his troublesome sub-consciousness
begins to work. Never quite rid of
THIS short novel is the first
the suspicion that his rest has
new work from the pen
only postponed what might have
of the late Arthur Schnitzler to
been the first sign of incipient in¬
appear in two years. It is typie¬
sanity, he is further agitated by
ally Schnitzleiian—concise, world¬
the fact that he is unable to re¬
ly, pessimistic, phrased with ele¬
member the last scene of a final
gant simplicity and bearing
parting with his mistress.
gracefully the somewhat ungainly
From this hypo-chondriacal be¬
burden of Dr. Freud; and it com¬
ginning the mental dissolution
bines the scientist’s clarity of
begins. If he is in fact insane,
perception with the intuitive psy¬
he wonders, is it altogether im¬
chological penetration of the art¬
prebable that he murdered his
ist and the mastery of the novel¬
mistress? He has never seen her
ette technique which the Germans
since that parting years agol Pos¬
and Austrians have made their
sessed by this torturing thought,
peculiar forte.
he is gradually led into specula¬
There is in this novelette, as in
tion over whether he was not re¬
other somewhat similar works by
sponsible as well for the death of
the same author, an excision of
his wife. Perhaps he murdered
superfluous detail which gives it
her, too. Finally he begins to
an unusual intensity, although
suspect his brother, Otto, of plot¬
the general, if not the exact
ting his death. In a moment of
nature of the ending is never,
mental stress he had once forced
and is not meant to be, in doubt.
Otto to accept a document au¬
Although Flight Into Dark¬
thorizing him to kill his brother
ness“ is by no means as colorless
should the latter lose his reason,
tale as the phrase “case his¬
and absolving him of blame. To
tory“ might imply, in outline that
ease Robert’s mind, Otto had
is precisely what it is—a study of
agreed to keep the ridiculous pa¬
the development of a persecution¬
per. Now, could it be that Otto,
mania. Robert, the hero—per¬
insane himself, was planning to
haps it is more fitting to call him
carry out the terms of this paper?
the victim—whose rather vague
—etc., etc., until the persecution¬
eccupation in some official ca¬
mania is dissolved in a logically
pacity had been interrupted sev¬
tragic coniclusion.
eral years after the death of His
In outline this doubtless sounds
wife by a serious nervous break¬
tediously ellnical. But it isn't, for
down, had been ordered by his
it has been expertly humanized,
brother, a famens physician, to
and far from having the tone of a
take a six-months’ rest in the
case history in mental disintegra¬
country. It is here, in a resort in
tion, it creates an atmosphere of
the Austrian Alps, tnat we first
realism and human drama suffi¬
meet him, several days before his
ciently potent to make one im¬
cure is ended.
mune to whatever odors of the
nthe eve of his return to
clinic still linger about.
ENR mmmmmmimmmmmmmmimmmmmmmnn
urie
N01
93s
An important book of the week is
Arthur Schnitzler’sFlight Into
Darkness. Schnitzler writes graph¬
ically of a man’s descent into mad¬
ness. The book is psychologically
clear, and tells a story that holds
one with morbid fascination,
„4
box 6/3
NUV- 3 1831
„ —Pole.
England’s Restoratio
England of the Restoration is pre- Tro
dri
sented in Arthur Bryant’s King „pe
Charles the Second.“
Charles in the tempetuous days
of exile, Charles as king, maintain¬ Sre
are
ing a delicate balance of control
the
over the country, forms the core of
sue
the book around which Bryant builds
the details of the restoration period.
ing
Throughout the story are found
evidences of Pepys’ notations.
St
An important book of the week is
Arthur Schnitzier’s Flight Into
Darkness.“ Schnitzier writes graph¬
ically of a man’s descent into mad¬
ness. The book is psychologicallyA
clear, and tells a story, that holdsithe
one with merbid fascination.
lege
Also puiblished this week are Gals¬
worthy's new play, The Roof;“stoc
+Roosevelt in the Rough, by Jack L.
Willis; anld Enterprise,“ by Harold dept
S. Vanderbilt.
by
Democra
Fra
cv 3-6
r
1's de:
ook is psych
id tells a stor
morbid fasel¬
d this week are
Galsworthy’s new play,Th
:# Roosevelt in the Rough#
7o1
y Uack Willis: and Enterprizé,“
by Harold S. Vanderbilt.