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RHAPSODV—4 Dream Novel
by Arthur Schnitzler
Translated by Otto P. Schinnerer
Cloth, 170 pages, small 12mo. Ready about Tebruarp 15 81.50
DREAMs are not merely dreams, and
reality is never entirely true—this theme,
as old as Plato and as new as 1927, is
at the heart of this most recent novel
from the pen of Schnitzler.
RHAPsopy — its German title is
TRAUMNOVELLE—has created so pro¬
found an impression abroad that even
before American publication it has been
reviewed from the original by two of our leading literary
publications.
Says Dhe Saturday Review of Literature:
The prose, brilliantly suited to the text and plot, by one
of the world’s best story-tellers, is of a man’s adventures in
the course of a few nights, during which all the lost chances
of love are revealed in a succession of exquisitely conceived
and dramatically contrasted scenes.“
Says The Nete Vork Times Book Revieto:
Schnitzler’s latest story is one of the most beautiful gifts
of his muse. The borderland between illusion and reality is
wrapped in shadow so artistically that we never know
exactly whether Dr. Fridolin actually experienced the fan¬
tastic happenings of that night, when his senses were still
pulsing from the unaccustomed excitement of the carnival,
or whether the visions he sees are merely the figments of
his yearning.