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Work Is Record oftuen
J. L. S.
A Tottering Mind
·FLIGHT INTO DARKNESS.“ by Arthur
Schnitzler; Simon & Schuster: 82.00.
7INHE corroding obsessions of a dis¬
1 ordered mind provide the mate¬
rial for Arthur Schnitzler's
HEMSTREET
Flight Into Darkness.“
96 WARREN STREET
This heartbreaking little story. pub¬
lished a month after its author was
NEW YORK CITYT
buried, at his own request. In a pau¬
per’s grave, bears final testimony to
his uncanny insight into the work¬
Ings of the human mind.
POST
Arthur Schnitzler was a doctor
trained to note the' most dellcate
changes in the physical states of his
Ner S W
patients. But, in addition to this
he had an almost superhuman sensi¬
*
tiveness to their psychological re¬
sponses.
Schnitzler’s
No other author of our generatior
Last Novel
gives so completely the Impression o
„HE psychological laboratöries have
getting inside the mind of his charac
ters, of actually following theit
1 managed to disrupt some of the
thoughts.
convenlent Freudian notions that gave
Although almost all his stort### art
rise to much of the important litera¬
subjective in character, he uses the
objective, impersonal, narrative style
ture of this century, but, as is usual in
in relating them. It Is curious and
such matters, popular opinion has
illuminating that, using his methoc
taken the laboratory’s cue and gone on
of gaining a subjective effect objec¬
tively. he is more convicing than any
to unwarranted excesses. Freudian
of our purely subjective novelists.
thought is no longer fashionable. and
Flight Into Darkness“ is a record
of the tottering and fall of a prom¬
the word “complex“ excites a certain
ising young mind. Robert is attractlve
impatience.
well-to-do, cultivated and artistic. In
One has only to read such a work as
his youth he had had a severe shock.
His best friend had suddenly gon¬
##rlicht Into Darkness“ (Simon and
insane. Insanity became the dread of
Schuster), the last novel of Arthur
his life. He became neurotic, though
Schnitzler, however, to relate the Freud-
not definitely psychopathie.
Advised to travel and rest, he went
ian themes of persecution and sexual
20
away for a long vacation. When he
fear to the most fundamental instinets
came home he tried to adjust himsel!
of human drama. In the hands of a
a metaphysical pattern which was
to normal surroundings. All the cir¬
cumstances of his life were favorable.
gllb dealer in new psychological formu¬
Schnitzler’s chief concern in the story.
But his uncasy mind invented ob¬
lae and in the hands of 'stream of
stacles to happiness.
consclousness“ hacks these themes can
+HESE words:
He became suspicious of anyone
gradually developing a definite perse¬
become unreal and superficial. Flight
1
Tdlike to be
cution mania. Perlods of normal
Into Darkness“ conveys some of the
An öyster, say,
thinking were more and more often
terror of abnormality, some ofithe fear¬
interrupted by distorted fancies, until
In August, June.
finally he lost all sense of reality and
ful tragedy involved in teetering on a
July, or May.
became a prey to his obsessions.
thin border between sanity and insan¬
Written with his moving simplicity.
and these words:
the story has a morbid fascination. It
ity, with all the medical authenticity
Mr. Otto Kahn
makes no attempt to be anything but
and the literäry skill Schnitzler dis¬
a psychopathie record. There is no
Is a patron of about every organiza¬
played in Fraulein Else,“ to mention
effort to create characters or develop
tion there is except the Ku Klur
only the short novels.
Klahn
It is f. story of the progressive mad¬
as well as these words:
ness, consclously and subjectlvely ob¬
4 bit of taleum
served, in a cultured man whose first
Is always walcum
wife died, whose mistress eloped with
an American. Familiar clinieal traits
are all of them conclusive evidence of
are to be observed in his career—the
the fact that the most original and
delusion that he killed his wife, for
amusing and healthy poet east of the
Instance, and the consequent guilt he
bleak and rocky coast where Robinson
feels to all women in relationships with
Jeffers clenches his fists has a new vol¬
himself. Flight Into Darkness“, ends
ume aut, and it’s called Free Wheel¬
with this man's murder of his brother
ing“ (Simon & Schuster) and it’s by
and with his own death in flight. TheOgden Nash. Pictures by Soglow.
climax scems unreal, but it completes I Chuckles by contented customers.
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Finsterni
box 6/3
36 A e e e en e e e e e e e e ee
Record
Philadelphia Pa
Nov 8-31
plot. The only conflict is that pie¬
Schnitzter S Lüst uaed p# ine warring zuspicions and
feat
s in one man's tortured imagina¬
Work Is Record oftuen
J. L. S.
A Tottering Mind
·FLIGHT INTO DARKNESS.“ by Arthur
Schnitzler; Simon & Schuster: 82.00.
7INHE corroding obsessions of a dis¬
1 ordered mind provide the mate¬
rial for Arthur Schnitzler's
HEMSTREET
Flight Into Darkness.“
96 WARREN STREET
This heartbreaking little story. pub¬
lished a month after its author was
NEW YORK CITYT
buried, at his own request. In a pau¬
per’s grave, bears final testimony to
his uncanny insight into the work¬
Ings of the human mind.
POST
Arthur Schnitzler was a doctor
trained to note the' most dellcate
changes in the physical states of his
Ner S W
patients. But, in addition to this
he had an almost superhuman sensi¬
*
tiveness to their psychological re¬
sponses.
Schnitzler’s
No other author of our generatior
Last Novel
gives so completely the Impression o
„HE psychological laboratöries have
getting inside the mind of his charac
ters, of actually following theit
1 managed to disrupt some of the
thoughts.
convenlent Freudian notions that gave
Although almost all his stort### art
rise to much of the important litera¬
subjective in character, he uses the
objective, impersonal, narrative style
ture of this century, but, as is usual in
in relating them. It Is curious and
such matters, popular opinion has
illuminating that, using his methoc
taken the laboratory’s cue and gone on
of gaining a subjective effect objec¬
tively. he is more convicing than any
to unwarranted excesses. Freudian
of our purely subjective novelists.
thought is no longer fashionable. and
Flight Into Darkness“ is a record
of the tottering and fall of a prom¬
the word “complex“ excites a certain
ising young mind. Robert is attractlve
impatience.
well-to-do, cultivated and artistic. In
One has only to read such a work as
his youth he had had a severe shock.
His best friend had suddenly gon¬
##rlicht Into Darkness“ (Simon and
insane. Insanity became the dread of
Schuster), the last novel of Arthur
his life. He became neurotic, though
Schnitzler, however, to relate the Freud-
not definitely psychopathie.
Advised to travel and rest, he went
ian themes of persecution and sexual
20
away for a long vacation. When he
fear to the most fundamental instinets
came home he tried to adjust himsel!
of human drama. In the hands of a
a metaphysical pattern which was
to normal surroundings. All the cir¬
cumstances of his life were favorable.
gllb dealer in new psychological formu¬
Schnitzler’s chief concern in the story.
But his uncasy mind invented ob¬
lae and in the hands of 'stream of
stacles to happiness.
consclousness“ hacks these themes can
+HESE words:
He became suspicious of anyone
gradually developing a definite perse¬
become unreal and superficial. Flight
1
Tdlike to be
cution mania. Perlods of normal
Into Darkness“ conveys some of the
An öyster, say,
thinking were more and more often
terror of abnormality, some ofithe fear¬
interrupted by distorted fancies, until
In August, June.
finally he lost all sense of reality and
ful tragedy involved in teetering on a
July, or May.
became a prey to his obsessions.
thin border between sanity and insan¬
Written with his moving simplicity.
and these words:
the story has a morbid fascination. It
ity, with all the medical authenticity
Mr. Otto Kahn
makes no attempt to be anything but
and the literäry skill Schnitzler dis¬
a psychopathie record. There is no
Is a patron of about every organiza¬
played in Fraulein Else,“ to mention
effort to create characters or develop
tion there is except the Ku Klur
only the short novels.
Klahn
It is f. story of the progressive mad¬
as well as these words:
ness, consclously and subjectlvely ob¬
4 bit of taleum
served, in a cultured man whose first
Is always walcum
wife died, whose mistress eloped with
an American. Familiar clinieal traits
are all of them conclusive evidence of
are to be observed in his career—the
the fact that the most original and
delusion that he killed his wife, for
amusing and healthy poet east of the
Instance, and the consequent guilt he
bleak and rocky coast where Robinson
feels to all women in relationships with
Jeffers clenches his fists has a new vol¬
himself. Flight Into Darkness“, ends
ume aut, and it’s called Free Wheel¬
with this man's murder of his brother
ing“ (Simon & Schuster) and it’s by
and with his own death in flight. TheOgden Nash. Pictures by Soglow.
climax scems unreal, but it completes I Chuckles by contented customers.