"Yes: whether one goes to a rendezvous or to certain death, the right officer cannot be recognized by gait and face!" Honor is held in high esteem in imperial and royal Austria; in a duel, it becomes clear who is a true man. Through the stream of consciousness of his nervously neurotic protagonist, Arthur Schnitzler exposes the hollowness of the concept of honor, and behind the portrait of the hysterical Fin de siècle society emerges the pitiful image of a substance-less person fixated on narrow-minded recognition. With contributions to both works from Kindler's Literary Lexicon. Includes data on life and work, exclusively written by the editorial team of the literary journal TEXT + KRITIK.