Apuesta al amanecer

Drawn to a large extent by the unstable movements of consciousness and mind that determine the actions of human beings, Arthur Schnitzler -a physician by imposition, a Viennese Jew, a bourgeois, a writer, an emblem of that Vienna that, straddling the 19th and 19th centuries, XX, he disputed in Mitteleuropa the primacy of cultural and social splendor to Paris- he often focused his novels on the vicissitudes of a character in brief and significant trances. "Bet on the Dawn" (1926) narrates forty-eight hectic hours in the life of Ensign Kasda since an old colleague, already outside the army, appears at his house in order to beg him for the urgent loan of the respectable sum of a thousand florins. . An unexpected stroke of luck allows him to save the passage gracefully, but an unfortunate chain of events and bad decisions from then on will prove fateful.