Often categorized as an experimental or case novella, Arthur Schnitzler’s early novella Sterben develops a literary approach that reflects the cultural framework of statistics. At the time, the statistical method aspired to relate individual life to statistical data, a development to which Schnitzler was especially sensitive as a physician. Writing medical texts and editing a medical journal, Schnitzler recognized in which ways the advance of statistics was furthered through visualization, for which Francis Galton’s composite portraiture is an example. The growing impact of the statistical method furthered the problematic role of the individual in statistical data. Sterben lays out the challenges the individual faces with regard to the positivist development of the statistical approach, describing the fate of a fatally ill tuberculosis patient. Working through the cultural notions of “consumption,” the novella lays out how especially Romantic notions of disease have become vain retrospectives, as death is increasingly represented by statistical data. Schnitzler’s text drafts a literary perspective of the impact of statistics on the individual, with consideration to the question of literary form.

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在亚瑟·施尼茨勒的小说《斯特本》中计算死亡

Arthur Schnitzler 的早期中篇小说 Sterben 通常被归类为实验或案例中篇小说，它开发了一种反映统计文化框架的文学方法。当时，统计方法渴望将个人生活与统计数据联系起来，作为一名医生，施尼茨勒对这一发展尤为敏感。在撰写医学文本和编辑医学期刊的过程中，施尼茨勒认识到通过可视化推动统计学进步的方式，弗朗西斯·高尔顿的复合肖像画就是一个例子。统计方法日益增长的影响进一步加剧了个人在统计数据中的问题作用。Sterben 阐述了个人在统计方法的实证发展方面面临的挑战，描述了一名致命结核病患者的命运。这部中篇小说通过“消费”的文化概念，阐述了特别浪漫的疾病概念如何成为徒劳的回顾，因为死亡越来越多地被统计数据所代表。施尼茨勒的文本草拟了统计对个人影响的文学观点，并考虑了文学形式的问题。