Night Games

Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian physician, dramatist, and novelist, was among the most sophisticated writers of his time. Margret Schaefer, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, has written on Wilde, von Kleist, and Kafka as well as on the history of psychoanalysis and psychology. She lives in Berkeley, California. Her translation of Arthur Schnitzler's Night Games won the 2002 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for a book of translations published by a Northern California author.

• Part 1 Foreword viiPart 2 Night Games 3Part 3 The Dead Are Silent 83Part 4 Blind Geronimo and His Brother 101Part 5 A Farewell 125Part 6 The Second 141Part 7 Baron von Leisenbohg's Destiny 161Part 8 The Widower 179Part 9 Death of a Bachelor 190Part 10 Dream Story 202

Simply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike.