Anatol (play)

Anatol
Written by	Arthur Schnitzler
Characters	Anatol, Max, Cora, Gabriele, Bianca, Emilie, Annie, Else, Ilona
Date premiered	1910
Place premiered	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Original language	German
Setting	Vienna, late 19th century

Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893. The introduction was written by Loris, a pseudonym of the young Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who was a friend of Schnitzler. It is a seven-act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the many shallow and immature relationships of bourgeois playboy Anatol. The first act, Die Frage an das Schicksal ("The question to fate"), earned Schnitzler the title of Psychologischer Tiefenforscher ("psychological depth researcher") from Sigmund Freud.^[1]