by Arthur Schnitzler · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253063445
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«Mademoiselle Else» is the short novel by Arthur Schnitzler, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (93 pages, in French).
Else, a young Viennese woman of the upper bourgeoisie, is spending the summer in an Italian palace when she learns that her father, ruined by embezzlement, will go to prison. To save him, she must ask the art dealer Dorsday for money, who demands a humiliating condition. The interior monologue shows the clash between duty, desire and dignity in early 20th-century Vienna.
Originally published in German in 1924 as «Fräulein Else»; this French edition includes the translation by Henri Christophe and the preface by Roland Jaccard.
For readers of European classics and students of 20th-century German literature.
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.
