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Bertha Garlan

1900

Arthur Schnitzler

Bertha Garlan

Arthur Schnitzler

1900

Three years after her husband's death, Bertha Garlan walks through her small Austrian town with her young son, moving through days that feel like a sentence. She was never in love with Victor Mathias Garlan; their marriage was a practical arrangement, a genteel surrender for a woman of her time. Now, at thirty-one, she finds herself haunted by the life she never lived: the artistic ambitions she abandoned, the passionate first love she let slip away. When the charming and slightly disreputable Herr Klingemann enters her orbit, and memories of the celebrated violinist Emil Lindbach resurface, Bertha stands at the threshold of a choice she lacks the courage to make. Schnitzler, writing at the height of his powers, constructs not a plot but a psychological portrait of quiet devastation. Every glance at the past is a wound; every potential future feels like a door slowly closing. This is a novel about the particular loneliness of a woman who followed the rules and was rewarded with a life she never wanted, now facing the unbearable question of whether it's too late to want something different.

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A novel written during the late 19th century. The book explores the life of Bertha, a widow navigating her existence in...

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Dr. Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. His works were often controversial, both for the...

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