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...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
...Vienna's Arthur Schnitzler has pointed out in a story (Leutnant Gustl), officers themselves may become the victims of the Code. He tells of a young lieutenant, insulted by a burly civilian, who attempts to draw, only to have the fellow seize his wrist and threaten to break his sword. If it breaks, the Lieutenant knows that, according to military honor, he must commit suicide. Luckily for the Lieutenant, Author Schnitzler demolishes the civilian in the nick of time by a stroke of apoplexy...
Faintly reminiscent of the clinical casebooks of Freud and Stekel are these ten compact novels, no longer than short stories, written at various times in Schnitzler's career, now translated into English for the first time...
...after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...
Called "The essence of Vienna" by everyone but the Viennese, Author Schnitzler gained a reputation for gay cynicism before the War. Since that time his work suggests an aging literary "master," sitting in an old fashioned study with blinded windows, busy with devious, psychological speculations and memories. He is a doctor, and a literary nerve specialist...