Evening stroll

Evening Walk is a dialogue by Arthur Schnitzler that remained unpublished during his lifetime and was completed in 1905. It is about a couple whose relationship has ended and who are speaking more honestly than before.

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In the Vienna Prater a man and a woman talk about the fact that they have just ended their relationship. By the time he utters the final words, she claims to have known long ago. Now they can chat more freely and he gets them to talk about their “infidelity” during the relationship: that she was in love with Alkibiades, with Casanova , that she was satisfied by bathing naked on Lake Lugano , and that she was in the court church in Innsbruck developed feelings for Arthur . He dismisses everything as fantasies, whereupon she reports a physical betrayal during the relationship - an English officer on vacation at Lake Karersee - that "is of no consequence". The man is annoyed about this and while he angrily says goodbye, she stays behind and makes her judgment: "You are still a little more stupid than you might think."

Emergence

On June 26, 1901, Schnitzler was with his future wife Olga in the Hofkirche in Innsbruck, where they saw the statue of Theodoric . As a result, he designed the novella Dämmerseele (The Stranger) , but probably also this dialogue. In his diary on December 13, 1905, Schnitzler noted: “Nm. for sending "Abendspazierg." (dialogue) made ready - and not sent away. "

A manuscript has not survived, but a typescript is. The finding aid of the Arthur Schnitzler Archive lists: Pages 1–13, typescript with handwritten corrections by Schnitzler. The original typescript with the call number A120.5 is now in the Schnitzler estate in the Cambridge University Library .

literature

Arthur Schnitzler: Evening walk . In: AS: designed, rejected. From the estate . Edited by Reinhard Urbach. Frankfurt / Main 1977, pp. 186-191. OCLC 898992797

Individual evidence

↑ Source, p. 190
↑ Source, p. 191
↑ In the source, p. 513 it is claimed that the text was written for Hermann Bahr and Die Zeit (Vienna) . That should be a mistake, as can be seen from the period of origin. The walk published by Bahr in the Deutsche Zeitung in 1893 is called "evening walk" in the correspondence between the two of them.

↑ Gerhard Neumann, Jutta Müller: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler . Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i.Br. material. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 103. (PDF; 6.3 MB).

[1] Source, p. 190

[2] Source, p. 191

[3] In the source, p. 513 it is claimed that the text was written for Hermann Bahr and Die Zeit (Vienna) . That should be a mistake, as can be seen from the period of origin. The walk published by Bahr in the Deutsche Zeitung in 1893 is called "evening walk" in the correspondence between the two of them.

[4] Gerhard Neumann, Jutta Müller: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler . Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i.Br. material. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 103. (PDF; 6.3 MB).