Reigen, The Affairs of Anatol and Other Plays by Arthur Schnitzler translated by Maria Mannes & Grace Colbron, by The Modern LibraryReigen, The Affairs of Anatol, and Other Plays, by Arthur Schnitzler
 
A play by Schnitzler, whose publication was banned in 1904 because it was considered obscene, is a drama in which ten individuals of different social backgrounds (from the count to the prostitute, passing through the poet and the girl) meet two by two in as many scenes. The paintings, therefore, consist of their dialogues and always end with a sexual act, which, however, is never represented on stage. One of the two characters in the scene ends up reappearing in the next one, in a chain of encounters that could proceed to infinity. Schnitzler's is a grotesque text in which the characters and their words are emptied of meaning, in which the dance of courtship ends in arid and predictable sexual relations. To dominate and govern human behavior is banality, the emptiness of relationships, and the absence of sincere feelings. The drama in three acts, "Amoretto," enriches the volume.
This volume is brown cloth w/gold lettering, the title page is stamped MACY'S, the pages are excellent.
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