Hands Around Reigen

Hands Around Reigen: A Cycle of Ten Dialogues is a play written by Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler. The play consists of ten interlinked dialogues, each between two characters, which explore themes of love, sex, and social class in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The characters include a prostitute, a soldier, a poet, a countess, and a married couple, among others. Each dialogue ends with one character leaving and encountering the next character in the cycle, creating a circular structure. The play was originally written in German and was controversial for its frank depiction of sexuality and its critique of bourgeois morality. It has been adapted into various forms, including the play La Ronde, which was later turned into a film by Max Oph�����ls.1920. Authorized Translation. Schnitzler's plays, novellas, and novels of fin-de-siecle Vienna are distinguished by their sparkling wit, brilliant style, and clinical observations of human psychology and social disintegration. His concern is with individual happiness, his approach is subtle and amoral, his tone unsentimental and ironic, and his dramatic problems often focused on love and sexual faithfulness. Hands Around is a series of ten comedies-miniatures in dialogue between man and woman in various ages and walks of life. Transgressing the merely literary, they are psychological studies of the interplay of sex, and keen analyses of the sophisticated modern soul, done with freedom and finesse. There are no grim questions of right and wrong in these subtle revelations of the merely human. In fact one might call them studies in the etiquette of the liaison and all its nuances. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.