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Schnitzler

[ shnits-ler; German shnits-luhr ]

noun

  1. Ar·thur [ahr, -ther, ahr, -t, oo, r], 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.


Schnitzler

/ ˈʃnɪtslər /

noun

  1. SchnitzlerArthur18621931MAustrianTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelist Arthur (ˈartʊr). 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist. His best-known works are Anatol (1893) a series of one-act plays, and Reigen (1900), both of which reveal his psychological insight and preoccupation with sexuality


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The suspect in the attack, Mellech Schnitzler, got off without any prison time.

Her latest novel, as they say in pitch meetings, is Bret Easton Ellis meets Arthur Schnitzler meets The Golden Girls.

Liebelei, which was produced first in 1895, is an excellent example both of Schnitzler's powers and of Schnitzler's limitations.

To revert to Schnitzler the dramatist, what are his chief claims, his chief excellences, his chief defects?

No dramatist has written tragedy with so light a hand, or comedy with so ironically pathetic a smile, as has Arthur Schnitzler.

Perhaps, however, Schnitzler's most characteristic series of one-acters is the one headed Lebendige Stunden.

The fundamental theme is one dear to Schnitzler—the flaming up of passion under the shadow of impending death.

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