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HHarsopy: A Drcam Novel. By Anrnuk
Scunzegten. (Constable. 25s. net.)
It is ditlicutt tozsay precisely what is
enupure
the connexihn besween Mr. Schnitzler’s
Nr. 30.—
#novel and Areame. It can scarcely be
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intended that the whole novel should
130.—
actually be a report of a dream, since
oi 250.—
not only is there another dream within
El T’année
Uthe bock, but it is in general“too cireum¬
Fa
stantial and elaborate. It deals with the
remnarkable and more or less erotic adven¬
ci
türes of a young inarried doctor in
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Vienna. Not ouly are these adventures
Pinexplicable, but they are really meant
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to be, on the surface, quite pointless. Yet
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below the surface they probably have the
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Psignilicance of adventures in dreams, in
P
that they are symbolic and might admit
of interpretation. Certain apparently###
syinbolic comneidences in the book #re in“
a
Lno other way explicable. But, of course, ½
however skilful in psycho-analysis thelp
reader may chance to be, it is unlikely
that he could iterpret the story, though!
he might interpret some of ite details,
since thie symbols can only have reference
to somnetlung outside the novel, just as.
dreams theinseives have reference to
sofething in the dreamer’s life. Never¬
Stheless, even if one makes no attemnpt at
interpretation, the novel is rather excit¬
ing. the mystification is amusing, and the
hints at a hidden meaning intriguing. I1
is a not uninteresting literary expernnent
torexploit the way in whlich the uncon¬
scious mind is supposedto work, and one
Ecan ouly be surprised that it has not been
tried before. In the third volume of bis
Collected papers Professor Frend-lumself
has mentioned the psychological penetra¬
tion of Mr. Schnitzler’s work, so that one
may take it that he is a most suitaple
writer to have made this experinent.,
Schnitzler's Powerful Small Novels
Readers of the novelettes of Arthur
Schnitzler, such as Beatrice,“Fraulein
70
Else“ and None But the Brave, will ex¬
pect much from his newRhapsody“
(Simon and Schuster, 81.50) and will not
10—0
be disappointed. Its sub-title is “A Dream
Novel’—In German it is called simply
Traumnovelle'—and it is the story of a
moment in the life of a married couple
wherein reallty and dream are so subthL
blended that one is never certaln which
is which. Albertina and Her physician¬
husband, Fold lin, begin by confessing that ###7
each has been mentally unfaithful, then
Fridolin is led threugh a serles of curlous
adventures in which serzlal fantasy plays
the major part. Most important among
these is a revel in which the participants
appear first as monks and nuns.
Always for Fridolin there is pursult and
promised ecstasy, ending in frustration, At
last he and Albertina are back in each
other’s arms, a new day begun with clear
he memorles of Fzar¬
sun to drive al
rerie. H
Wer: mng
t 1o be
1 it 18
1al0 15
mo¬
1 r6-
Mr.
hoktly to lec¬
lahkers and
IEL BRICKELL.
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Extrait du Journal:
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Date:
PL
NEW NOVEL.
4
al
HHarsopy: A Drcam Novel. By Anrnuk
Scunzegten. (Constable. 25s. net.)
It is ditlicutt tozsay precisely what is
enupure
the connexihn besween Mr. Schnitzler’s
Nr. 30.—
#novel and Areame. It can scarcely be
„ 67.50
intended that the whole novel should
130.—
actually be a report of a dream, since
oi 250.—
not only is there another dream within
El T’année
Uthe bock, but it is in general“too cireum¬
Fa
stantial and elaborate. It deals with the
remnarkable and more or less erotic adven¬
ci
türes of a young inarried doctor in
d
Vienna. Not ouly are these adventures
Pinexplicable, but they are really meant
h
to be, on the surface, quite pointless. Yet
K
below the surface they probably have the
#
Psignilicance of adventures in dreams, in
P
that they are symbolic and might admit
of interpretation. Certain apparently###
syinbolic comneidences in the book #re in“
a
Lno other way explicable. But, of course, ½
however skilful in psycho-analysis thelp
reader may chance to be, it is unlikely
that he could iterpret the story, though!
he might interpret some of ite details,
since thie symbols can only have reference
to somnetlung outside the novel, just as.
dreams theinseives have reference to
sofething in the dreamer’s life. Never¬
Stheless, even if one makes no attemnpt at
interpretation, the novel is rather excit¬
ing. the mystification is amusing, and the
hints at a hidden meaning intriguing. I1
is a not uninteresting literary expernnent
torexploit the way in whlich the uncon¬
scious mind is supposedto work, and one
Ecan ouly be surprised that it has not been
tried before. In the third volume of bis
Collected papers Professor Frend-lumself
has mentioned the psychological penetra¬
tion of Mr. Schnitzler’s work, so that one
may take it that he is a most suitaple
writer to have made this experinent.,
Schnitzler's Powerful Small Novels
Readers of the novelettes of Arthur
Schnitzler, such as Beatrice,“Fraulein
70
Else“ and None But the Brave, will ex¬
pect much from his newRhapsody“
(Simon and Schuster, 81.50) and will not
10—0
be disappointed. Its sub-title is “A Dream
Novel’—In German it is called simply
Traumnovelle'—and it is the story of a
moment in the life of a married couple
wherein reallty and dream are so subthL
blended that one is never certaln which
is which. Albertina and Her physician¬
husband, Fold lin, begin by confessing that ###7
each has been mentally unfaithful, then
Fridolin is led threugh a serles of curlous
adventures in which serzlal fantasy plays
the major part. Most important among
these is a revel in which the participants
appear first as monks and nuns.
Always for Fridolin there is pursult and
promised ecstasy, ending in frustration, At
last he and Albertina are back in each
other’s arms, a new day begun with clear
he memorles of Fzar¬
sun to drive al
rerie. H
Wer: mng
t 1o be
1 it 18
1al0 15
mo¬
1 r6-
Mr.
hoktly to lec¬
lahkers and
IEL BRICKELL.