{"product_id":"o-tenente-gustl","title":"Lieutenant Gustl","description":"Playwright, short story writer, essayist, novelist, and novelist, it was with his talent for dissecting the most ambiguous side of human beings that Arthur Schnitzler became one of the most important authors in the German language. In LIEUTENANT GUSTL, his best-known book—part of the collection The Great Works of Arthur Schnitzler, edited and translated by Marcelo Backes—he creates the first interior monologue in his language. A novel that inspired the stream of consciousness of writers like James Joyce. Gustl, an officer in training in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army, argues with a baker in the theater's cloakroom while they are attending a concert. The baker cannot stand Gustl's rudeness and, amidst harsh words, takes his sword and breaks it in half. And so begins the officer's agony. Ashamed and humiliated, he believes his only option is suicide. As he envisions the end, he ponders three main things: whether anyone heard the argument, whether he will become a laughingstock in Vienna, and whether he would survive the insult. The young man wanders the capital of the Empire, contemplating how to kill himself, rejecting every argument against the dramatic end. In his monologue, he presents a catalog of thoughts, prejudices, and values rooted in his class. And an absurd sense of honor. At the same time, he displays a petty side: the objectification of women, anti-Semitism, growing militarism, class struggle, and privilege. The epitome of an era at once grand and decadent. The valorization of the individual, leisure, and consumption, woven together by the thread of Schnitzler's talent, functions here as a portent for modern society. Its parallel with Schnitzler's Vienna lies in the universe of lost connections. In misery and fascination, the glitter, false or not, of the human condition. Gustl's musings during his night mask the author's impressions of Viennese society at the end of the 19th century.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159595892988,"sku":"9788501090805","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9f4760813ab1f797c8a0c34744f88e8e.jpg?v=1780716228","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-tenente-gustl","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}