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box 5/7
33. uumauiuale
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T G
Eymnäger Pmol Pire Wem Vonk Prigs Book REyim.
March 27, 1927.
Behind the nostalgie romanticism of Arthur Scimitz1er lurks
the keen investigat ing eye of a psychoanalyst. No one can doubt this
who secks the underlying fomdations of this semi-fantastic novelette,
VRhapsody“. The psychoanalytical element is never in evidence and yet
the almost unbelievable series of adventures that befall Doctor Fridolin
dur ing the day and night that he is away from hiswife and happy house¬
hold substantiate certain psychoanalytical conclusions in the most de¬
cisive fashion.
The plot, the bare bones of this novelette, which, after all,
mean everything and nothing, hes been presented so crudely to make clear
the psychological conflict which clothes it. It is the sensitive and
finely wrought art of Doctor Schnitzler, the placing of not a word too
much or too little, the minute balancé of the theme that really matter.
Whether or not we may believe in his conclusions we cannot but recog¬
nize the restrained and convincing workmanship that has circumseribed
in novelette form a theme that would have called for a full-length novel
from another writer. The impalpable dominations of life are revealed
with a strange and subtle force.
There is a strange flavor in 'Thapsody“, a bitter-sweet taste
that is comningled of disi Mlusionment and dreams. This is one of the
best of those small compacf tbmes that Doctor Schnitzler has been vrit¬
ing dur ing the past few geärss. It is excellently translated from the
German by Otto P. Schinnere
box 5/7
33. uumauiuale
GA
T G
Eymnäger Pmol Pire Wem Vonk Prigs Book REyim.
March 27, 1927.
Behind the nostalgie romanticism of Arthur Scimitz1er lurks
the keen investigat ing eye of a psychoanalyst. No one can doubt this
who secks the underlying fomdations of this semi-fantastic novelette,
VRhapsody“. The psychoanalytical element is never in evidence and yet
the almost unbelievable series of adventures that befall Doctor Fridolin
dur ing the day and night that he is away from hiswife and happy house¬
hold substantiate certain psychoanalytical conclusions in the most de¬
cisive fashion.
The plot, the bare bones of this novelette, which, after all,
mean everything and nothing, hes been presented so crudely to make clear
the psychological conflict which clothes it. It is the sensitive and
finely wrought art of Doctor Schnitzler, the placing of not a word too
much or too little, the minute balancé of the theme that really matter.
Whether or not we may believe in his conclusions we cannot but recog¬
nize the restrained and convincing workmanship that has circumseribed
in novelette form a theme that would have called for a full-length novel
from another writer. The impalpable dominations of life are revealed
with a strange and subtle force.
There is a strange flavor in 'Thapsody“, a bitter-sweet taste
that is comningled of disi Mlusionment and dreams. This is one of the
best of those small compacf tbmes that Doctor Schnitzler has been vrit¬
ing dur ing the past few geärss. It is excellently translated from the
German by Otto P. Schinnere