Lt. Gustl
The wanderings of someone’s mind is a concept that I find immensely interesting but I don’t know if we would be better off if we all spoke whatever was on our minds. I think there is a lot to learn from streams of consciousness. In the story, Lt. Gustl has many thoughts and excuses for […]
If New York is the Big Apple, is Vienna the Big Croissant? IDK.
So, before we realized it, we’ve reached the final blog post of the term! I would probably say something sentimental, but in my opinion, what we’re going to talk about today is far more compelling than anything I can drum up 😛 (By the way, I apologize for the delay of this post – in […]
Schnitzler & Kid Cudi
When reading Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler, modern rap music is probably not the first thing that’ll come to most people’s mind, but as I read the text I couldn’t help but be reminded of the song ‘GHOST!’ by Kid … Continue reading →
Descartes and Gustl…what?
I’m always late for blog posts, sorry guys…heh heh – *nervously looks around for ways to escape* Ok, so…. The lecturer (I kinda forgot his name BTW) mentioned Ernst Mach and his views on this story, and well I wanted to focus my presentation on that. So he brought up Descartes and his statement on […]
Gustl and the Perception of Others
The style in which Lieutenant Gustl is written in is very interesting for a variety of reasons, but I think…
Lt. Gustl – Well, that escalated quickly…
Lieutenant Gustl is a story written completely in interior monologue, and was the first novel of the sort to be published. In this style, the reader gets to know the setting solely as it is described by the protagonist, Gustl, … Continue reading →
Austrian Putz, American Psycho
It says something about Lt. Gustl that the first thing it reminded me of wasn’t Catcher in the Rye (where I held equal contempt for the insufferable first-person protagonist), but American Psycho. The more I think about it, the more the two texts’ similarities … Continue reading →
Defining Personal Morality
Schnitzler’s Lieutenant Gustl gives way to the mind of a character of questionable moral standpoints in our modern society. Notions of antisemitism, womanizing, and aggression are the defining characteristics of the protagonist. With that being said, most of the evidence for these notions come from an inner monologue. There is argument for Gustl acting on some of […]
Lt. Gustl: What are you hiding?
Well, this was an interesting story for me to read. What caught my attention the most was the way the story has been told to us. Instead of it being told by a third person narrator or from a direct first person which would normally consist of the character describing what’s going on around them,…
Lieutenant Gustl
The final German short story (and final text of the term) that we read was “Lieutenant Gustl” by Arthur Schnitzler, also in Appelbaum’s Five Great German Short Stories. -Contradictions in the train of thought While pondering his planned suicide, Gustl ironically questions the motives of those who commit suicide, declaring that it is “unbelievable, the things […]