Fiction. Austrian Literature. Translated from the German by Richard L. Simon. A major modernist of the period of Viennese intellectual activity from 1890 to 1930, Schnitzler portrays the psychological topography of his bourgeois milieu with startling definition. Author of numerous works of fiction and drama, and vociferous critic of contemporary Austria's militarism, Schnitzler met harsh anti-Semitism upon publishing LIEUTENANT GUSTL. James Joyce admitted to have been influenced by this book in writing Ulysses.