One night, Albertina confesses that the previous summer, while they were on vacation in Denmark, she had a sexual fantasy about a young Danish military officer. The protagonist of the story is Fridolin, a successful 35-year-old doctor who lives with his wife, Albertina (also translated as Albertine), and their young daughter. The book belongs to the period of the Decadent movement in Vienna after the turn of the 20th century.ĭream Story is set in early-20th-century Vienna. Prior to this film, it had been adapted for Austrian television in 1969, and a low-budget Italian film entitled Nightmare in Venice in 1989. The best known of the film adaptations is the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut by director-screenwriter Stanley Kubrick and co-screenwriter Frederic Raphael, although it makes significant alterations to the setting and story. The first book edition appeared in 1926 in S. It was first published in installments in the magazine Die Dame between December 1925 and March 1926. This culminates in the masquerade ball, an event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Doctor Fridolin, the outsider. In this short time, he meets many people who give clues to the world Schnitzler creates. The book deals with the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two-day period after his wife confesses having had sexual fantasies involving another man. Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, also known as Dream Story ( German: Traumnovelle), is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
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