Schnitzlers Hidden Manuscripts

This volume, which takes its title from an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in November 2006, aims to shed new light on Schnitzlers uvre and his period by focusing on his as yet largely unpublished literary remains, his hidden manuscripts. Among the key topics covered in this collection are: the reconstruction of the adventurous rescue of the manuscripts from Vienna in 1938 and a description of their current locations; an overview of the authors life, in its historical context, on the basis of such private documents as his diaries and letters; the plethora of existing variants, both published and unpublished, and their usefulness for our understanding of Schnitzlers work, from the Anatol cycle to the scandalous Reigen in the light of the discovery of its original manuscript and Schnitzlers planned (but never completed) work on the historical figure of Emperor Joseph II; Schnitzlers difficult relationship with one of the most influential journalists of his time, Karl Kraus, and his literary friendship with a close but hitherto neglected contemporary, Gustav Schwarzkopf; the network of intertextual references hidden in the revolutionary monologue novella Lieutenant Gustl against the background of Hermann Bahrs modernist theory of literature; and finally, Schnitzlers hidden legacy in our own epoch. This book contains contributions in both English and German.