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| Title | : | Dream Story |
| Author | : | Arthur Schnitzler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 99 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published 1926) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Literature |
Arthur Schnitzler
Paperback | Pages: 99 pages Rating: 3.78 | 9358 Users | 545 Reviews
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“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”
The Bride (1918) by Klimt
It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their vacation. Fridolin also confesses that he had desired a young woman on the beach.
It seems fairly harmless after all.
When we marry, we don’t go numb from the waist down and the neck up. We continue to notice attractive people and continue to be titillated by charming and intelligent ones, as well. It could be a ruggedly handsome waiter in a restaurant or a pretty pearl wearing bartender or a French beret wearing poet or a saucy librarian with libidinous thoughts. There are a host of emotions that are involved with noticing that our spouse is interested in some other person. If it is one sided, it can just be amusing or mildly annoying. If the interest is reciprocated, then it can unleash a torrent of reactions from fear to pride to jealousy to finding your spouse that much more alluring because someone else recognized those qualities that you may have started to take for granted.
Flirtations or mild crushes, in most cases, just adds a bit of spice to life.
For Fridolin, this confession of his wife, even though his confession is very similar, unmoors him. It is as if the possibilities of his life are suddenly opening up to him, and women whom he met every day suddenly take on the glow of possibility. Soon after the dream confessions, Fridolin, who is a doctor,, is called out to a client in dire health. Unfortunately, his trip is for naught as the man has passed when he arrives.
Thus begins one of the strangest evenings, an odyssey really, of Fridolin’s life. By the end of the night, he has met a series of women, all women who are interested in sleeping with him and all whom he would like to sleep with. In thinking about which he would prefer, he canot decide. ”To the little Pierrette? Or to the little trollop in the Buchfeldgasse? Or to Marianne, the daughter of the dead Court Counsellor?” It does not matter for they are all about to be replaced by a woman he is on the verge of meeting in precarious circumstances.
”Fridolin was intoxicated, and not merely by her presence, her fragrant body and burning red lips, nor by the atmosphere of the room and the aura of lascivious secrets that surrounded him; he was at once thirsty and delirious, made so by all the adventures of the night, none of which had led to anything, by his own audacity, and by the sea-change he felt within himself. He stretched out and touched the veil covering her head, as though intended to remove it.”
He has fallen into a secret sex club with the help of his piano playing friend Nachtigall. He isn’t supposed to be there. He was never supposed to meet this woman with the burning red lips. He is supposed to be home with his wife and daughter.
Though it is an evening fraught with sexual possibilities, he is like a man walking through a museum admiring the intriguing paintings, but touching none of them.
His wife has more dreams to confess.
Look at all that hair the young Arthur Schnitzler had.
Arthur Schnitzler’s work was considered filth by Adolf Hitler. Anything that upsets that goose stepping, stiff necked, little pipsqueak should be read by the rest of the civilized world with reverence. Schnitzler was born in 1862 and died in Vienna in 1931. If he had lived long enough, the Nazis would have most certainly beaten him and had him thrown in some damp hole for being the Viennese Henry Miller, a few decades before Miller knew he was Miller. If his writing was not enough of an incentive to bring him to the attention of the Third Reich, certainly his Jewish ethnicity would have condemned him just as quickly.
Schnitzler had numerous affairs, sometimes with several women at the same time. He kept a Journal for most of his life and dutifully recorded not only every assignation, but every orgasm. A bit OCD about the adventures of his willie, wouldn’t you say? The venerated Viennese doctor of psychology Sigmund Freud said in a letter to Schnitzler, "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition – although actually as a result of sensitive introspection – everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." Was there a bit of Freudian jealousy in that observation? Does Freud need some time on his own couch? Fridolin may have thought about making conquests of women, but Schnitzler turned thought into deed.
Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut. Is it just me or do those wire rimmed glasses make her look very naughty!
Stanley Kubrick directed a film based on this novel called Eyes Wide Shut, (1999) starring the then married Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. I know I watched the film, but I don’t remember a bloody thing about it. I must have been plastered or snogging or both when I watched it, so I must apologize for not being able to make at the very least some pithy remarks comparing the film to the book. I have a feeling the two may have very little to do with each other, but I’m sure out there in GR land, there are several people who can weigh in on whether the film conveyed Schnitzler’s thoughts or was just a jumping off place for Kubrick/Kidman/Cruise to explore their own ideas.
A quick read with some fascinating observations about relationships, the brain, and our natural/unnatural attractions to the people we come into contact with.
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Describe Books As Dream Story
| Original Title: | Traumnovelle |
| ISBN: | 0141182245 (ISBN13: 9780141182247) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Fridolin, Albertine, Nachtigall, Herr Gibiser, Dr Adler, Baroness Dubieski |
| Setting: | Vienna(Austria) |
Rating About Books Dream Story
Ratings: 3.78 From 9358 Users | 545 ReviewsCrit About Books Dream Story
I have registered with GoodReads simply so that I can comment that this is one of the worst books I have ever read.It is middle-brow soft-porn of the most banal sort. I should perhaps say that I only read it because it is a set text on a university course I am doing. I realise that I am reading it in translation, but the language is so remarkably cliche-ridden and trite. We are supposed to be reading about deep, disturbing experiences and for me it all comes over as if the central character isAm I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth. The Bride (1918) by KlimtIt all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their vacation. Fridolin also confesses that he had desired a young woman on the beach. It seems fairly harmless after all. When we marry, we dont go numb from the waist down and the neck up. We continue to notice
In 1933, Joseph Goebbels orchestrated a Fahrenheit 451 avant la lettre, by putting on fire, in some major cities of Germany, all those books that Hitler had identified as "Jewish filth", for they were written by nonentities such as Einstein, Marx, Kafka, Freud, Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler. The last one is the least known among them and it is a pity, because his work was fresh and daring both in ideas and style for his time (the beginning of the 20th century). Indeed, on one hand he did
I thought I had the answers to the questions I ask myself every time I see Eye Wide Shut which this new dream is adaptation.Kubrick has drawn the close of the story, namely the duality of fantasies couple Fridolin and Albertine. The paper version is more detailed, more freudiène and of course less erotic date on which since 1926. But the themes are there: fantasies, prostitution, desire ...The movie has added a more mysterious side accentuating the idea of ritual akin to immediately dive into a
The inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, this delicious little novella weaves unravels an enchanting story of love's disintegration. Mesmerising and beguiling; twisted and intricate; deceptive and illuminating a scrumptious read. It's fascinating to see how Kubrick interpreted this visually too.
But now that the day work was done the child had gone to bed and no disturbance was likely the shadowy forms of the masquerade, the melancholy stranger and the red dominoes, rose again into reality. And all at once those insignificant events were imbued, magically and painfully, with the deceptive glow of neglected opportunities. Fridolin and Albertina names that seem destined to be part of a commedia del arte show are a young and happily married couple in pre-war Vienna, that city that was
I recently watched the Stanley Kubrick adaption most of us know as Eyes Wide Shut. I was enthralled with the movie, and I would argue that it is his best film. The naivete of common folk in a world that powerful people inhabit, the animalistic ritualization of sex, the entitlement to fidelity modern people expect from a marriage, the jealousy and bitterness that comes with the idea of a spouse sharing pleasure with another: all elements in a story fraught with Kubrick's meticulous symbolism and
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