La Ronde

Informationen zum Autor By Arthur Schnitzler - Translated by Nicholas Rudall Klappentext First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that "you have learned through intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." By choosing characters across the social spectrum, La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual contact transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudall's new translation sensitively captures the language distinctions of the representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably playable script. New in the Plays for Performance series.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Schnitzler
• Assisted by: Nicholas Rudall (Translation)
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2010
• EAN: 9781566638463
• ISBN: 978-1-56663-846-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Plays for Performance; Plays for Performance Series; Plays for Performance; Plays for Performance Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies