"Schnitzler was a remarkable and versatile talent who adapted for his artistic purposes both the new techniques of psychoanalysis and what was later to be known as the stream of consciousness"
JOHN BAYLEY Times Literary Supplement
"Schnitzler's brilliant novella"
"Schnitzler's brilliant novella"
DESMOND CHRISTY The Guardian
"What makes it a tour de force is that the story is old, in a superbly sustained stream-of-consciousness, entirely from Else's point of view"
"What makes it a tour de force is that the story is old, in a superbly sustained stream-of-consciousness, entirely from Else's point of view"
GILBERT ADAIR Evening Standard
ABOUT THE BOOK
FRAULEIN ELSE is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination, with horrific consequences.
ABOUT THE BOOK
FRAULEIN ELSE is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination, with horrific consequences.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER was born in Vienna in 1862, the son of a prominent Jewish doctor, and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. In later years he devoted his life to writing and was successful as a novelist, dramatist and short story writer. Schnitzler's work shows a remarkable ability to create atmosphere and a profound understanding of human motives.
Translated by F H LYON
Cover illustration by Duncan Ward
ISBN 978 1 901285 06 2 - 112pp
