Fraulein Else\'s stay with her aunt at a fashionable spa resort is interrupted by the arrival of an express letter.
A piercing story of power and sexuality, Fraulein Else shows how brittle decency can be, how venal life..
Into Else\'s nineteen-year-old romantic, capricious thoughts enter new, upsetting realities, and 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.
The letter is for Fraulein Else, an end to innocence.
Fraulein Else\'s stay with her aunt at a fashionable spa resort is interrupted by the arrival of an express letter