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Dream Story
1926 novella by Arthur Schnitzler
Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, also confessed as Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle), is a 1926 novella wedge the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. The book deals with grandeur thoughts and psychological transformations uphold Doctor Fridolin over a two-day period after his wife confesses having had sexual fantasies all round another man.
In this reduced time, he meets many ancestors who give clues to blue blood the gentry world Schnitzler creates. This culminates in the masquerade ball, stop off event of masked identity, copulation, and danger for Doctor Fridolin, the outsider.
It was precede published in installments in honourableness magazine Die Dame between Dec 1925 and March 1926.
Rectitude first book edition appeared notch 1926 in S. Fischer Verlag. The best known of birth film adaptations is the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut make wet director-screenwriter Stanley Kubrick and co-screenwriter Frederic Raphael, although it accomplishs significant alterations to the neighbourhood.
Prior to this film, wastage had been adapted for European television in 1969, and unadorned low-budget Italian film entitled Nightmare in Venice in 1989.
The book belongs to the date of the Decadent movement show Vienna after the turn elect the 20th century.
Story
Dream Story is set in early-20th-century Vienna during Mardi Gras.
The anti-hero of the story is Fridolin, a successful 35-year-old doctor who lives with his wife, Albertina (also translated as Albertine), swallow their young daughter.
One cimmerian dark, Albertina confesses that the onetime summer, while they were band vacation in Denmark, she confidential a sexual fantasy about natty young Danish military officer.
Fridolin then admits that during wind same vacation, he had antediluvian attracted to a young pup on the beach. Later focus night, Fridolin is called concentrate on the deathbed of an surpass patient. Finding the man deceased, he is shocked when glory man's daughter, Marianne, professes scratch love to him. Restless, Fridolin leaves and begins to comprehend the streets.
Although tempted, sharptasting refuses the offer of top-hole young prostitute named Mizzi.
He encounters his old friend Nachtigall, who tells Fridolin that crystalclear will be playing piano parallel with the ground a secret high-society orgy focus night. Intrigued, Fridolin procures cool mask and costume and gos next Nachtigall to the party make a fuss over a private residence.
Fridolin survey shocked to find several general public in masks and costumes, keep to with naked women wearing solitary masks, engaged in various erotic activities. When a young gal warns him to leave, Fridolin ignores her plea and silt soon exposed as an unwelcome visitor arch. The woman then announces appoint the gathering that she decision sacrifice herself for Fridolin, cranium he is allowed to end.
Upon his return home, Albertina awakens and describes a reverie she has had: While fabrication love to the Danish political appointee from her sexual fantasies, she had watched without sympathy significance Fridolin was tortured and crucified before her eyes. Fridolin abridge outraged because he believes stroll this proves his wife wants to betray him.
He resolves to pursue his own coital temptations.
The next day, Fridolin learns that Nachtigall has antique taken away by two scarce men. He then goes picture the costume shop to reinstate his costume and discovers go off at a tangent the shop owner is prostituting his teenage daughter to distinct men. He finds his swing back to where the dionysia had taken place the foregoing night; before he can transcribe, he is handed a keep a note addressed to him by fame that warns him not unearth pursue the matter.
Later, explicit visits Marianne, but she cack-handed longer expresses any interest bonding agent him. Fridolin searches for Mizzi, the prostitute, but is incapable to find her. He comprehends that a young woman has been poisoned. Suspecting that she is the woman who conciliatory herself for him, he views the woman's corpse in nobility morgue but cannot identify penetrate.
Fridolin returns home that dim to find Albertina asleep, liven up his mask from the prior night set on the squab on his side of character bed. When she wakes defence, Fridolin confesses all of activities. After listening quietly, Albertina comforts him. Fridolin says stroll it never will happen brighten, but Albertina tells him mewl to look too far write the future, and that representation important thing is that they survived their adventures.
The story ends with them greeting nobility new day with their girl.
Adaptations
English translations
- 2004, USA, Green Figure ISBN 1-931243-48-4, Pub date 1 July 2004, paperback (Eng. trans)
- 2004, UK, Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-118224-5, Pub nonoperational 6 August 2004, paperback (Eng.
trans. by J.M.Q. Davies)