'A tour de force'
- Evening Standard Fraulein Else's stay with her aunt at a fashionable spa resort is interrupted by the arrival of an express letter The letter is for Fraulein Else an end to innocence Into Else's nineteen-year-old romantic capricious thoughts enter new upsetting realities & a new unwelcome power comes to exert itself over her Schnitzler's novella is an extraordinary exercise in character as compelling as it is psychologically acute A piercing story of power & sexuality Fraulein Else shows how brittle decency can be how venal life