Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.
This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.
First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best...
The second collection of Schnitzler's prose fiction follows on the award-winning Night Games, Ms Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas, acknowledged masterpieces.
These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.
”Men dette drømmevæsen besad den hemmelighedsfulde magt at bortjage hans døde søsters spøgelse, så at denne da forekom ham ligesom at have forladt dette liv for længere tid... Læs mere
”Ganske vist var det en stor sorg, da jeg dengang opdagede, at hun bedrog mig… men hvor meget andet var der ikke da med i spillet!… Vreden og det... Læs mere