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He wrote novelettes from time to time, but it was not until 1907
that the little volume. Dämmerseelen, appeared. Jakob Wassermann,
in the only oriticism of Schnitzler's works that he wrote, says:
"Der Freiherr von Leisenbohg gehört zu den geistreichsten, ja son-
derbarsten Geschichten, die ich kenne.“ (30) less well known
orities like Friedrich Stein (31) and Rudolph Presberö praised the
volume. The latter wrote: "Schnitzlers nachhaltige wirkung (in
diesem Bändchen) beruht in der sachte gleitenden, behutsam ver-
schleiernden Art des Erzählens, die scheinbar das Alltägliche gibt
und doch das Wunder anbietet." (32)
Der Weg ins Freie, Schnitzler's first full-langth novel,
aroused a veritable storm of Kriticiam in nevspapers and magazines
in Germany and Austria. (33) Reviews of the novel appeared in
seven of the periodicals used in this study. The majority of the
crities recognized the style and wisdom of the book, which em-
bodes practically all of Schnitzler'sötives. Chly in one in-
stance was the novel attached in an entirely denunciatory manner.
Carl Busse, book reviewer in Velhagen und Klassings Monatshefte,
who always had a ship on his shoulder when he wrote about Schnitz-
ler, said: "In künstlerischer Hinsicht ist der Weg ins Freie ein
offenbarer Sandweg. Schnitzler hat noch nichts Schwächeres geschrieb-
in de
en.“(34)
eitzelnden
fremden. xxx pathatischen
Die Neue Rundschau, XVIII, 890, August 1907.
30.
31.
Nord und Süd, CXEL. 397.
32
Das Literarische Echo. X. 56.
33.
Das Literarische Scho, X, 1359, 1433, 1651, 1712; XI, 58,
II.
127. 731.
34.
Velhagen und Klassings Monatshefte, XXIII, 317, October 1908.