SOURCE: Grey, Tobias. “The New Schnitzler.” Times Literary Supplement, (15 February 2002): 23.

In the following review of Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas, Grey praises the translation of Dream Story by Margret Schaefer.

It is hard now to picture the fuss that was made in 1920 when Arthur Schnitzler's libidinous play Reigen (La Ronde) was performed in Berlin for the first time. In an atmosphere of anti-Semitic agitation, riots broke out in the streets denouncing the playwright, and the director and cast were put on trial for obscenity. Schnitzler banned any future production of the play during his lifetime, but its notoriety continued to grow, along with Schnitzler's reputation as a bedroom savant. His fellow Austrian, Karl Kraus, cruelly described him as “standing between those who hold a mirror up to time, and those who hold a bedroom screen up to it; somehow he belongs in the boudoir”. Recent versions...