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Buch Der Spruche Und Bedenken
Osservazioni, aforismi, notazioni, umori e malumori, slanci e ritrosie, cinismo, diffidenze, autoironia di un grande narratore che scrive ironicamente in queste "Se scuoti un aforisma ne cade fuori una bugia e ti avanza una banalità".
145 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1927
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Arthur Schnitzler
1,010 books541 followersArthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression 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")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression 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")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
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November 15, 2020
Indignazione morale? Di fronte alle opere d’arte non esiste proprio. Ciò che di solito si definisce così è un concetto del tutto fittizio.
Ci sono però delle persone che, consciamente o inconsciamente, ribattezzano «indignazione morale» la loro incapacità o la loro avversione a osservare un’opera d’arte semplicemente come tale. Si tratta di gente non sempre avveduta, ma spesso onestissima.
Esistono poi persone che per motivi assai diversi, molto di frequente per cosiddetti motivi politici, di fronte a un’opera d’arte si fingono indignate, senza esserlo dentro di sé. Sarebbe scortese definire questa gente degli ipocriti tout-court, visto che il loro gesto di indignazione, nella nostra civiltà, si instaura di solito quasi automaticamente e spesso senza intenzioni ostili.
Ci sono anche persone che, siano o no indignate per quanto le riguarda, prendono terribilmente sul serio le indignazioni immaginarie, recitate, finte degli altri. Si tratta di gente ingenua o irrimediabilmente sciocca.
E infine ci sono persone che sanno tutto questo proprio come lo so io e come lo sa ovviamente anche lo spettabile lettore, ma che si comportano come se nel loro cuore credessero a tutte queste indignazioni immaginarie, recitate e simulate: e si tratta dei critici.
Ci sono però delle persone che, consciamente o inconsciamente, ribattezzano «indignazione morale» la loro incapacità o la loro avversione a osservare un’opera d’arte semplicemente come tale. Si tratta di gente non sempre avveduta, ma spesso onestissima.
Esistono poi persone che per motivi assai diversi, molto di frequente per cosiddetti motivi politici, di fronte a un’opera d’arte si fingono indignate, senza esserlo dentro di sé. Sarebbe scortese definire questa gente degli ipocriti tout-court, visto che il loro gesto di indignazione, nella nostra civiltà, si instaura di solito quasi automaticamente e spesso senza intenzioni ostili.
Ci sono anche persone che, siano o no indignate per quanto le riguarda, prendono terribilmente sul serio le indignazioni immaginarie, recitate, finte degli altri. Si tratta di gente ingenua o irrimediabilmente sciocca.
E infine ci sono persone che sanno tutto questo proprio come lo so io e come lo sa ovviamente anche lo spettabile lettore, ma che si comportano come se nel loro cuore credessero a tutte queste indignazioni immaginarie, recitate e simulate: e si tratta dei critici.
August 28, 2021
Chi si sente condannato alla solitudine può sempre fare qualcosa perché la sua solitudine sia ricca.
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