The Dead Are Silent: 1907

The inspiration behind ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, ‘The Dead are Silent’ is a tense psychological novella.

Exploring the social parameters of 19th century Vienna, Schnitzler introduces us to Franz and Emma who are having an illicit affair. One evening, they hire a carriage with tragic consequences.

‘The Dead are Silent’ is an evocative exploration of the hypocrisy of middle-class Viennese society and an unflinching dissection of the nature of grief.

This novella is ideal for those new to Schnitzler's body of work.

The son of a physician, Arthur Schnitzler (1862 – 1931) was born in Vienna. At the age of 17, he enrolled at the city’s university, studying medicine. After graduating, he began work as a doctor at the Vienna General Hospital.

Despite seeing himself primarily as a man of science, Schnitzler began writing when he was 31. His first works, poems, and short stories, focusing on the themes of jealousy and adultery, laid the foundations for his first play, ‘Anatol.’ Due to its psychological nature, ‘Anatol’ was praised by Sigmund Freud and later adapted for film, starring Gloria Swanson.

Schnitzler eventually retired from the medical profession to pursue his literary career. In addition to numerous plays, he also wrote two full-length novels, a dozen short stories, and two non-fiction books.


  1. Badelæge Doktor Gräsler

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  2. Meisterwerke der deutschen Literatur : 100 Klassiker, die man kennen muss

    Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Fallada, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Klaus Mann, Hermann Broch, Heinrich Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, Heinrich von Kleist, Kurt Tucholsky, Ödön von Horváth, Karl May, Wilhelm Busch, Heinrich Hoffmann, Johanna Spyri, Else Lasker-Schüler, Georg Büchner, Joseph von Eichendorff, Arthur Schnitzler, Theodor Storm, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Christoph Martin Wieland, E. T. A. A Hoffmann, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Frank Wedekind, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Schopenhauer, August Klingemann, Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Gottfried von Straßburg, Sigmund Freud, Elisabeth Langgässer, Gottfried August Bürger, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Sebastian Brant, Hermann Bote, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Hildegard von Bingen

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  3. Doktor Gräsler, Badearzt : Erzählung

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  4. Fräulein Else : Novelle

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  5. Noen omslag er bare synlige når du er logget inn

    Erotische Phantasien – Verführerische Klassiker : Die Playlist für gewisse Stunden

    Arthur Schnitzler, Franziska zu Reventlow, Victor Margueritte

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  6. Noen omslag er bare synlige når du er logget inn

    Traumnovelle

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  7. Lieutenant Gustl, Fräulein Else und Der Reigen : Novelle, Novelle und ein Drama

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  8. 100 Klassiker der Romantik - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss

    Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, William Shakespeare, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, Guy De Maupassant, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Leo Tolstoi, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prosper Mérimée, Edith Wharton, Lena Christ, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Gaston Leroux, Nataly von Eschstruth, Gottfried von Straßburg, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Benedikte Naubert, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Levin Schücking

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  9. Traumnovelle - Konzertlesung nach Arthur Schnitzler (ungekuerzt)

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  10. Die 100 schönsten Liebesromane zu Weihnachten : Stolz und Vorurteil, Kleine Frauen, Weiße Nächte, Die Bettelprinzeß, Anne auf Green Gables, Trotzige Herzen, Eugen Onegin

    Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Walter Scott, Guy De Maupassant, George Sand, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Leo Tolstoi, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Prosper Mérimée, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, Hermann Stehr, Sophie Laroche, William Shakespeare, Gottfried von Straßburg, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Hermann Heiberg, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Nataly von Eschstruth, Marianne Ehrmann, Sophie Albrecht, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Christian August Vulpius, Benedikte Naubert, Johanna Schopenhauer, Frau von W., Levin Schücking, Hermann Stegemann

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  11. Fräulein Else: : Eine Novelle von Arthur Schnitzler

    Arthur Schnitzler

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  12. Lieutenant Gustl : Ein Offizier in der Krise: Psychologische Tiefe und literarischer Mut in der Wiener Moderne

    Arthur Schnitzler

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