|
Arthur Schnitzler. Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
|
Trans. Margret Schaefer. Foreword John Simon. Ivan R. Dee, 2002. 272 pp. $28.50.
This collection of nine stories and novellas by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) provides an excellent introduction to an underappreciated writer of penetrating psychological depth. Schnitzler, whose stories largely take place in fin de siecle Vienna, astounds us with his insights about the mind of the heel: opportunistic army lieutenants, unfaithful husbands and wives, and suspicious siblings populate these stories, whose pace alternates smoothly, thanks to Margret Schaefer's deft ...
|
Synagogues Without Jews: Walking the Streets of Italy
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...Jewish music in the 16th century, combining liturgy and polyphonic choral music, while in the 17th-century Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's "Derech haShem" explained Judaism with Enlightenment rationality and kabalistic sensitivity. The expatriate...
|
|
Making the Book of Radiance Sparkle
Newspaper article from: The Jerusalem Report
; ...The Zohar itself revels in the sounds of strange words, so much so that an 18th-century Italian mystic, Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, recommended the book on lyrical grounds alone, writing: "Even if one does not understand, the language is...
|
|
Hitting The Rock Of Ages
Newspaper article from: The New York Jewish Week
; ...this interpretation of Moses' sin merely opened...did so pointedly. Hayyim Ibn Atar, known as Ohr Ha-Hayyim, collected over a...pool. Shmuel David Luzzatto wrote that he would...t want to saddle Moses with yet another sin...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Arthur Schnitzler. Night Games and Other Stories ..."
