La danzatrice greca

by Arthur Schnitzler, Marco Gabellieri (Translator), Riccardo Bocci (Narrator)

"La gente può dire ciò che vuole, io non ci credo che la signora Mathilde Samodeski sia morta di un colpo apoplettico. Io lo so più di chiunque altro."

Con queste parole il protagonista inizia a rimuginare sull'amore mai corrisposto per la defunta Mathilde, che scelse invece di sposare lo scultore Gregor Samodeski, uomo giovane e di successo, nonché rinomato donnaiolo. Il narratore in prima persona mette in dubbio che Mathilde sia mai stata felice con il marito e ricorda ogni istanza in cui la donna cercò invano di convincerlo del contrario. In questa novella ritroviamo tutti i temi più cari all'autore, che porta in luce personaggi alle prese con situazioni tragicomiche dovute a disillusioni e sogni insoddisfatti. L'esito quindi non deve sorprendere, nonostante appaia un po' canzonatorio.

Questo audiolibro è stato realizzato in collaborazione con Edizioni Clichy.

Genres: Fiction

1 pages, Audible Audio

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Arthur 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

Reviews

[A. Raca · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 ⭐

Özellikle "Kehanet" isimli öyküyü çok sevdim. Diğerleri de fena değildi.

[aslı · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kitap beş hikayeden oluşuyor: Kör Geronimo ve Kardeşi, Ölüler Konuşmaz, Kehanet, Yeni Şarkı ve Yunan Dansçı Kız. Her öykünün dokusu farklıydı ve aralarında en çok ilgimi çeken öykü Kör Geronimo ve Kardeşi idi. Güven hissi ve bu hissin alınan mı, verilen mi yoksa karşılıklı çaba ile elde edilen bir olgu mu olduğu üzerine, muazzam bir ironi yardımı ile kurulan bir hikayeydi.

[Münevver]

Son iki öyküyü okuduğum ortamdan dolayı pek hissedemedim ama diğer üç öykü çok sevdiğim öyküler oldu. Bence yazar "Ya bu siz olsaydınız, ne yapardınız?" sorularını çok güzel sormuş.

[Hulyacln · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Ölmek” adlı eseriyle tanıştığım yazar “Yunan dansçı kız”da da ölüm teması üzerinde duruyor en çok ancak bu sefer farklı yüzleriyle.Kimi zaman merkezde kimi zaman yan yollarda karşımıza çıkarıyor ölümü.

Beş öykünün olduğu kitapta,karakterlerin hemen hepsi bir sır ile yaşıyor.Sonunda açığa çıkacak irili ufaklı sırlarla.Tüm karakterler yanındakilerle yakın ilişkide,gözden kaçamayacak kadar yakınlarında.
Zaman ve mekanlar ise belirsizliğiyle rahatsız etmiyor okuru.Aksine zamansız bir üslup kazandırıyor yazara.

Ölüler konuşmaz’da aldattığı eşine her detayı anlatmak zorunda kalan bir kadın görüyoruz.Kehanet’te kaçmaya çalıştığı kaderiyle er geç yüzleşen bir adamı..Kitapa adını veren Yunan dansçı kız’da kıskançlığı,Kör Geronimo ve kardeşi’nde güveni işliyor yazar.Yeni Şarkı’da ise beklemenin ne denli acı verici olabileceğini..

Kolay okunan,yormayan ve güzel bir tat bırakan öyküler bunlar.

[Hasan Kan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daha özenli bir çeviri veya editörlükle çok daha etkileyici ve akıcı olabilirdi.

[Andreas Steppan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arthur Schnitzler hat mein Lob definitiv nicht nötig, trotzdem bin ich mal so vermessen: Diese Erzählungen sind erstklassig, entwerfen interessante Konfliktfälle um Schuld, Verantwortung, Eifersucht, sind spannend, geschickt aufgebaut, sprachlich makellos und glänzen vor allem als differenzierte, tiefschürfende psychologische Miniaturen. Besonders in Erinnerung bleibt "Der blinde Geronimo und sein Bruder" - herzzerreißend. Im Vergleich zu heutiger Literatur fällt natürlich die Dramatik der Erzählungen auf (hohe Selbstmordquote!). Durch die Lektüre angeregt, habe ich mir aus dem Internet eine Lesung von "Fräulein Else" heruntergeladen. Gegenüber diesem Höhepunkt in Schnitzlers Werk sind die Erzählungen in "Die griechische Tänzerin" noch etwas "harmloser" und konventioneller - waren seinerzeit aber sicher dennoch provokant.

[Francesca Mizzoni · Rating 3 out of 5]

il narratore è un uomo che apprende dalla morte di Mathilde Samodeski a causa di un colpo apoplettico. Lui però non ci crede. il protagonista si lascia andare ad un momento amarcord ricco di aneddoti e ci racconta dell'amore non corrisposto che lui provava per Mathilde che però sposò uno sculture che, a parere del nostro protagonista, non la rendeva felice e, in particolare, racconta di quella volta che provó a convincerla che lui non l'amava davvero in quanto era solo un donnaiolo.
Un racconto di disillusioni e sogni
insoddisfatti.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

bel racconto, che eleganza Schnitzler