Contents
Autobiography
Retrospective Introduction to my Book Märchen des Lebens
A Letter to Arthur Schnitzler
On Writing
The Koberer (Procurer)
Coffeehouse
I Drink Tea
Perfume
On Smells
Tulips
Flower Allée
Uncle Max
Uncle Emmerich
My Aunt
Career
The Bed
Celebrity
Poem
Love
Theater Evening
Poverty
The Little Silk Swatches
Day of Affluence
Traveling
In the Volksgarten
Marionette Theater
At Buffalo Bill’s
Saint Martin’s Island
The Kingfisher
The Drummer Belín
Twelve
Seventeen to Thirty
Schubert
Gramophone Record
A Real True Relationship
The Nature of Friendship
October Sunday
Fellow Man
The Reader
Modern Diogenes
Conversation
Albert
The Private Tutor
Conversation with Tíoko
The Automaton
Adultery
Philosophy
Akolé
Complications
The Novice Postal Clerk
Conversation with a Chambermaid
Afternoon Break
The Mouse
The Hotel Room
Elevator
Visit
Little Things
Idyll
My Ideals
Peter Altenberg as Collector
On the Street
The Walking Stick
A Walk
Psychology
Discovery
Persecution Complex
January, on the Semmering
The Steamboat Landing
In Munich
My Summer Trip, 1916
My Gmunden
An Experience
In a Viennese Puff
Putain
Human Relations
The New Romanticism
Cabaret Fledermaus
Newsky Roussotine Troop
The Interpretation
Subjectivity
Aphorisms
The People Don’t Always Feel Altogether Social-democratic
Big Prater Swing
Sunset in the Prater
The Night
Sanatorium for the Mentally Imbalanced (but not the one in which I wiled!)
Mood
July Sunday
In the Stadtpark
A Sunday (12.29.1918)
To Make a Long Story Short: The Prose of Peter Altenberg (an afterword)
P.S. (to P.A. from P.W.)