Volume 30, Number 12 · July 21, 1983
The Return of La Ronde
By Gabriele Annan
Arthur Schnitzler: Plays and Stories
edited by Egon Schwarz, with a foreword by Stanley Elkin
Continuum (The German Library, no. 55), 279 pp., $17.95; $8.95 (paper)
La Ronde is a famous film by Max Ophuls. It lives up to its title by having a theme song that has been going round and round in people's heads for thirty-three years. Outside the German-speaking world, and even in it, Arthur Schnitzler has, for the last fifty years or so, been known chiefly as the author of the play Reigen, on which the film was based. Even the present translation calls it La Ronde, presumably in homage to Ophuls.
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