by Arthur Schnitzler, Reinhard Urbach · Reclam, Ditzingen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150181614
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«Das weite Land» is the tragicomedy in five acts by Arthur Schnitzler, edited by Reinhard Urbach, from Reclam in paperback (183 pages, in German).
Set in Viennese high society at the beginning of the 20th century, the play follows Friedrich Hofreiter, an industrialist married to Genia, and his circle. Infidelities and jealousy intersect with hypocrisy and bourgeois conventions, and Schnitzler offers an ironic critique of double standards and marriage, without losing sight of the fragility of human relationships.
The volume is number 18161 of Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. The play was originally published in 1911 and is used as Schullektüre and classroom material.
Suitable for students of German and readers interested in Central European drama of the early 20th century.
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler's works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, dissected turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900. Schnitzler's Jewish upbringing and the sexual content of his works made them controversial or banned in his time and beyond.
