Literature (Schnitzler)

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Literature is a comedy in one act by Arthur Schnitzler . Created in 1901, it belongs together with three others to the one-act cycle Lebendige Stunden . The play was premiered with the others on January 4, 1902 in the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Faced with the choice between writing and marriage, Margarethe decides in favor of her bridegroom Baron Clemens.

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Gilbert visits his former lover Margarethe. In the dialogue it turns out that both have processed the story of their past relationship in a novel each. Of course, each of the two authors has vigorously covered the traces. However, one flaw has been made. Both authors have inserted their correspondence word for word into the respective text of the novel.

The above-mentioned choice between writing and marrying the baron is easy for Margarethe. Marriage is, by the way, the elegant solution to the problem of published love letters. Margarethe has her novel, which is about to be delivered, crushed, throws the copy that the baron brings back from a visit to the publisher into the fire and gives himself up to marry.

reception

  • Farese calls those writers hypocrites who cannibalize love experiences.
  • According to Sprengel, Schnitzler alludes to events in Munich's artistic circles .

Film adaptations

Radio plays

Entries 60 to 67 in: Radio plays ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

literature

source
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Literature. S. 378–403 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen. The one-act. With an afterword by Hermann Korte . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (edition 2000). 602 pages, ISBN 3-10-073557-9
First edition
Audio book
Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Farese, p. 103 middle
  2. ^ Sprengel, p. 500, 3rd Zvo