by Arthur Schnitzler · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845906565
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«Beate e suo figlio» is the novel by Arthur Schnitzler published by Adelphi in paperback (124 pages, in Italian).
Beate, widow of a celebrated actor, spends the summer with her son Hugo by a lake near Vienna, where she thinks she recognizes in him the features of her dead husband. Though she has suitors, she remains devoted to that memory; but the suspicion that an actress of her own age is courting Hugo shakes her world and awakens in her a disturbing desire.
Part of the Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi collection (no. 189); Italian translation by Magda Olivetti. Work originally published as «Frau Beate und ihr Sohn» in 1913.
For readers of classic fiction who appreciate psychological portraiture and intimate atmospheres.
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler's works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, dissected turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900. Schnitzler's Jewish upbringing and the sexual content of his works made them controversial or banned in his time and beyond.
