None but the Brave

work by Schnitzler

Also known as: “Leutnant Gustl”

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None but the Brave is a novel by Austrian playwright and novelist Arthur Schnitzler. Published in 1901, it is considered his most successful novel. The work is notable for being the first European masterpiece written entirely as an interior monologue.

Schnitzler, a physician by training, often explored psychological themes in his writing. None but the Brave delves into the hollowness of the Austrian military code of honor, a theme also present in some of his plays. His works are known for dissecting the complexities of Viennese bourgeois life at the turn of the 20th century, often with a detached, melancholic humor. Schnitzler's writing frequently examined egotism in love, fear of death, and the introspection induced by a weary spirit.1

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Arthur Schnitzler
…successful novel, Leutnant Gustl (1901; None but the Brave), dealing with a similar theme, was the first European masterpiece written as an interior monologue. In Flucht in die Finsternis (1931; Flight into Darkness) he showed the onset of madness, stage by stage. In the play Professor Bernhardi (1912) and the…
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…successful novel, Leutnant Gustl (1901; None but the Brave), dealing with a similar theme, was the first European masterpiece written as an interior monologue. In Flucht in die Finsternis (1931; Flight into Darkness) he showed the onset of madness, stage by stage. In the play Professor Bernhardi (1912) and the…
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stream of consciousness
Other notable examples include Leutnant Gustl (1901) by Arthur Schnitzler, an early use of stream of consciousness to re-create the atmosphere of pre-World War I Vienna; William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), which records the fragmentary and impressionistic responses in the
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Other notable examples include Leutnant Gustl (1901) by Arthur Schnitzler, an early use of stream of consciousness to re-create the atmosphere of pre-World War I Vienna; William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), which records the fragmentary and impressionistic responses in the
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