Arthur Schnitzler

Dream Story

Traumnovelle

A História de um sonho

Stanley Kubrick

Frederic Raphael

Dream Story...is a sensual tale that explores the subconscious, forbidden desires of a husband and wife, in both their dreams and fantasies and their increasingly daring sexual adventures. Ahead of its time and marked by the deep influence of the author's contemporary, Sigmund Freud, Schnitzler's novel has become a modernist classic. In this volume the original story's themes of depravity and the elusive ambiguity of dream and reality can be compared to Kubrick's own transforming vision -- in the film that has become the culminating achievement of his career...

Eyes Wide Shut

La Nouvelle rêvée

Spiel im Morgengrauen 

Fiori. I morti tacciono

Morire

Deutsche Kurzprosa der Gegenwart

Novelle

Lieutenant Gustl

Arthur Schnitzler war wohl der erste deutschsprachige Autor, dem eine wirklich plastische Darstellung des Denkens und Fühlens seiner Figuren gelang, ja mehr noch - Die angewandte Erzähltechnik des 'inneren Monologs' gestattete erstmals quasi eine 'Verschmelzung' mit ihrem subjektiven Bewusstsein. Idealtypisch führt dies seine Erzählung 'Lieutenant Gustl' vor, die hier in der Erstausgabe von 1900 präsentiert wird. Dort trägt der Protagonist noch seine französische Rangbezeichnung. Der junge Offizier Gustl, der von einem nicht satisfaktionsfähigen Bäckermeister beleidigt wird und sich deshalb nach dem Ehrenkodex der Armee erschießen müsste, durchleidet eine Nacht der Todesangst. Erst am Morgen erfährt er, dass sein Angstgegner einem Schlaganfall erlegen ist. Streng monologisch verfasst, erzeugt die Leidenssuada einen enormen Sprachsog, der die zerstörerische Wirkung autoritärer Zwänge drastisch vor Augen führt. Angesichts des alptraumartigen Szenarios aus Doppelmoral, Versagen und Missbrauch überfällt den Leser ein fiebriger Identifikationszwang wider Willen, der den 'Lieutenant' als eine der einflussreichsten Erzählungen des letzten Jahrhunderts ausweist.

novelle : Berlin 1901

Lieutenant gustl

Arthur Schnitzler, Traumnovelle

The Shepherd's Pipe, and Other Stories

Beatrice Heinold, widow of well-known actor Ferdinand, is summering at one of the small lake villages in the Salzkammergut with her son Hugo. This is a genteel crowd of Viennese bourgeoisie, sophisticated, urbane and liberated. However, Beatrice realizes that her young son, Hugo, is either having an affair with, or close to doing so with Baroness Fortunata Schon, of whom Beatrice does not at all approve. She tries to confront the Baroness, pleading for her son to be left in his innocence and is given the promise, but realizes immediately that the promise will not be kept. Things complexify, however, when Beatrice inexplicably starts a passionate love affair with Hugo’s best friend, and after learning from him that her late husband, whom she had idolized as the perfect lover and husband, had many affairs during their married life. This weighs deeply on her, and she even contemplates further affairs with others in the community in some sort of revenge on her dead husband.

A Novel

Beatrice

Fräulein Else

Fräulein Else. A Novelette. - London, Philpot (1925). 149 S.

The Road to the Open

FRAULEIN ELSE is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination, with horrific consequences.

Arthur Schnitzler

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