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Dream Story (Rhapsody: A Dream Novel,Traumnovelle)

By Arthur Schnitzler

Book information

Publisher
Green Integer
Year
2003
ISBN
1931243484, 9781931243483
Open Library ID
OL8802503M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
349 kB (357574 bytes)
Pages
63\63
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Amidst a short spat between a married couple, the husband, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choices that seem beyond his control. The dream-like events are made more frighteningly real by Schnitzler’s powerfully detailed descriptions, as little by little Fridolin gives in to the demands of the secret celebrants.Order may be restored, but the desperation, the depravity of the human mind remains just below the surface of the conscious willing of good.A doctor himself and close friend of Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most important playwrights and novelists of early 20th-century Austrian literature.

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