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dramatist.
During his lifetime his works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality and for their strong stand against
anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie
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A member of the avant-garde group stream-of-consciousness
narration.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grĂ¼ne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese
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