La Ronde (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566638463)

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.

Author: Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN-10: 1566638461
ISBN-13: 9781566638463
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.58w x 0.38d