num_pages: 416
description: Turn-of-the-century Vienna was the scene of tremendous social and artistic upheaval. Arthur Schnitzler's novel The Road to the Open brilliantly captures the complex world of Freud, Mahler, Strauss, and Klimt, dealing masterfully with the basic issues of Austrian anti-Semitism, the Viennese intellectual community, post-Wagnerian music, and the psychology of Vienna's middle class.
language: English
title: The Road to the Open
titlecomplete: The Road to the Open (European Classics)
characters: Baron Georg von Wergenthin
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Jewish, Fiction
ratings_count: 327
places: Vienna
publisher: Northwestern University Press