Schrecken vor Tod. Un’ipotesi di intertestualità tra la Traumnovelle di Arthur Schnitzler e le Sieben Variationen di Heimito von Doderer

The present paper examines the potential and undeclared intertextual link between Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle and Heimito von Doderer's Sieben Variationen über ein Thema von Johann Peter Hebel, with a specific focus on the ambiguous and contradictory character of the relationship between the two Viennese writers. Through an investigation of the scattered statements included in the early Tagebücher, as well as the contrastive analysis of both textes, it will be provided what it seems to be a missing page in the research on Heimito von Doderer's literary sources and, at the same time, a further scientifical support for the investigations of one of his less-known works.