Therese
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O MN 70
1929
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UN·O GERSLAN NOVELS
ThEkrsa: Tan-Enkosienn or A WoafAN’s
Lirz. By Aurnon Scharrzuin. (Constable.
7s. 6d. net.)
Srerrzsworr. By Hennanx Husst, Trans¬
lated by Basn. Camenrof. (Secker.
78. 6d. net.)
If one wanted to give a mme to the type of
novel Arthur Sehnitzler lias been writing
during the last few years, it would be possible
to find a less descriptive label than
* Viennese.? It is from Vienna that we get
most of our ideas about psycho-analysis; and
it is from psycho-analysis that Schnitzler
appears of late to have got liis ileas about
people. Not that a novel like" Fräulein
Else,? for instance, contains a great amount
of psychological exposition. That is not
Schnitzler’s way: hie is an achnirable story¬
teller, and he seldom fails in this respect in
his regard for the render. But it has been
evident for some thie that his opinions and
his interest in people have alike been deeply
coloured by the conclusions of Freucan
psychology.
* Theresa,' which origimally appeared last
year, is a preeise and delicate study of
character, so impartial in manner as to seein
rather cynical from beginning to end. The
Unovel is by no means a short one, but it is
written almost as concisely as a elinical report.
Theresa Fabiani, when we lirst meet her, is
n girl of sixteen, living in Salzburg with her
parents. Her father, & retired Army oflicer,
is slowly becoming insane; her mother, n
sillg, dissolute crcature, is exchanging the
part of a reader of sentinental novels for that
pf a writer of thei. Theresa’s parentage, it
is at once eleur toithe render, promises
Hothing good. She becoines mnore or less
engagedto Alfred Nuellhenn, a Foung medical
student, witl##t feeling the slightest passion
Nor him, and is hmnensely relieved when he
goes to Vienna, It is not long, however,
before she is also bored and lonely; and in
ithis frame ol mind she meets a young oflicer,
is innnedliately attracted to himn and almost
innnediately seduced bye Him. Tlns, thie first.
lof her love affairs, is hmmlled with the coolest
detaehment; one is persumntled of the truth
of the entire episode, hiowever, by thie wag in
hich the girl, althongh she loses her tender¬
ness for her lover, retamns her passion for hiln.
Finallg abandened, she runs nway to Viennn
and gets work as a governess. Agum she is
betraged by a sellish, thearrical, rendy-witted
#fellow, Kasmur Tobiseh-an neute chracter
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Extrait du Journal:
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TOADOP
Date:
99
O MN 70
1929
—
UN·O GERSLAN NOVELS
ThEkrsa: Tan-Enkosienn or A WoafAN’s
Lirz. By Aurnon Scharrzuin. (Constable.
7s. 6d. net.)
Srerrzsworr. By Hennanx Husst, Trans¬
lated by Basn. Camenrof. (Secker.
78. 6d. net.)
If one wanted to give a mme to the type of
novel Arthur Sehnitzler lias been writing
during the last few years, it would be possible
to find a less descriptive label than
* Viennese.? It is from Vienna that we get
most of our ideas about psycho-analysis; and
it is from psycho-analysis that Schnitzler
appears of late to have got liis ileas about
people. Not that a novel like" Fräulein
Else,? for instance, contains a great amount
of psychological exposition. That is not
Schnitzler’s way: hie is an achnirable story¬
teller, and he seldom fails in this respect in
his regard for the render. But it has been
evident for some thie that his opinions and
his interest in people have alike been deeply
coloured by the conclusions of Freucan
psychology.
* Theresa,' which origimally appeared last
year, is a preeise and delicate study of
character, so impartial in manner as to seein
rather cynical from beginning to end. The
Unovel is by no means a short one, but it is
written almost as concisely as a elinical report.
Theresa Fabiani, when we lirst meet her, is
n girl of sixteen, living in Salzburg with her
parents. Her father, & retired Army oflicer,
is slowly becoming insane; her mother, n
sillg, dissolute crcature, is exchanging the
part of a reader of sentinental novels for that
pf a writer of thei. Theresa’s parentage, it
is at once eleur toithe render, promises
Hothing good. She becoines mnore or less
engagedto Alfred Nuellhenn, a Foung medical
student, witl##t feeling the slightest passion
Nor him, and is hmnensely relieved when he
goes to Vienna, It is not long, however,
before she is also bored and lonely; and in
ithis frame ol mind she meets a young oflicer,
is innnedliately attracted to himn and almost
innnediately seduced bye Him. Tlns, thie first.
lof her love affairs, is hmmlled with the coolest
detaehment; one is persumntled of the truth
of the entire episode, hiowever, by thie wag in
hich the girl, althongh she loses her tender¬
ness for her lover, retamns her passion for hiln.
Finallg abandened, she runs nway to Viennn
and gets work as a governess. Agum she is
betraged by a sellish, thearrical, rendy-witted
#fellow, Kasmur Tobiseh-an neute chracter