I just started and it's really excellent. So much so that I got distracted by reading to tell people about it
Follow up question, has anyone read any other work by Arthur Schnitzler?
>>25289947>making a thread about a book that isn't in the top 100
>>25291669I read Dream Story. What did you think of Late Fame?
>>25292315I have only read half of it so far, despite being only 100 pages (I will read the other half today and give a better review). I like it a lot and I am very interested in artist collectives, so if anyone knows of books about artist collectives or online sources, id appreciate them
How do you people even hear of books like this
>>25293120from other faggots who post about it
>>25293120It's NYRB man, not exactly that strange or obscure these days
Having read Late Fame, I can say it's an honest portrayal of a self-centered man, old in his years, who gets caught up in the idea that he is famous, despite being known by only a small cadre of wannabe artists. The protagonist, Saxberger, revels in the respect that the younger artists give him, but he can't even be bothered to make a new poem for their play. At the end, in a final disappointment, he refuses to read the work of the youngest member of the art circle. Note, I may be being too hard on Saxberger, because I am not revealing everything so as to not spoil the story for you.Reviewing the technical side; the execution of the book was great. The plot didn't linger and kept my attention. The characters were realistic and the dialogue fine. Prosewise, there was nothing memorable in the novella; good or bad. There are no lines that one would find worthy to highlight. Despite this, I still think this work is positive for the mind and good fuel for creativity.
>>25293120NYRB is an entry-level litfic publisher, lil bro. Once you move on from genreslop, you will learn thiz
>>25291669i am halfway through a story collection of his
>>25289947No
Might like this one OP I picked it up recently and while I haven't finished it quite yet it can make you think about how much of "greatness" can truly be the right time and right place a bit as well. Pretty cool what if scenario done mostly well, has that classic anglo wit too if you like that sort of thing
>dude this book was SO good I couldn't even finish the first page without putting it down and going back to 4chan
>>25293120nyrb is a well-known press, they put out a lot of very good books
>>25291669I've read Traumnovelle and Frau Beate und ihr Sohn. Both of them I found interesting for the psychoanalytic angle, and sort of modern in that regard. Generally speaking, I don't have a very high opinion of him and other jugendstil writers I've read - and I've read a bunch as I was "preparing" myself for Musil. It seemed to me like they had a very sentimental, conservative take on most literature (Zweig in particular I found almost impossible to digest, with one exception), relying on past and/or established idea of the world, Schnitzler being the sole exception. It was very much a literature for rich LARPers who wanted to be called geniuses and artists - and one of the few good books coming out from that era, Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern, shows exactly the kind of atmosphere that there was around literature at the time. Somehow it reminds me a lot of the current state of anglophone literature: decadent, trite public signaling of one's political/psychological posture that bears no impact on anyone's life except that of the author and does not advance nor elaborate any new philosophical ideas. Musil's Man Without Qualities is exactly about this kind of intellectual statis, with characters endlessly ruminating about useless topics without ever getting to the bottom of anything (the least powerful and most conservative, stylistically speaking, of the modernist I've read: not at all on par with Proust and Joyce). Overall Schnitzler and friend are an interesting read if you want to have a look at a different era, and generally relax. They are very relaxing books, to be read in coffees during short trips in continental Europe, and then put aside and forgotten.
>>25289947only tangentially related but, I don't get why everybody loves NYRB printing so much. The pages and covers are nice but every one I have has the paper grain going the wrong way on the cover, you have to use some force to keep the book open. Not nearly as nice of a physical reading experience as say something like the newer Vintage books
