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These artful new translations of nine of Arthur Schnitzler's most
important stories and novellas-including "Dream Story," on which
Stanley Kubrick based his widely acclaimed film Eyes Wide
Shut-reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as
literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. The
psychologically complex and morally ambiguous tales of love and
adultery, dream and reality, desire and death in Night Games prove
Schnitzler to be fully the equal of his great contemporaries Kafka,
Rilke, and Musil, and justify Freud's praise of his knowledge of
depth psychology. The collection includes powerful early works such
as "The Dead Are Silent" and "Geronimo and His Brother" as well as
late masterpieces such as "Night Games" and "Dream Story."
Schnitzler creates memorable characters and makes original and
masterful use of inner monologue, "stream of consciousness," and
unrealiable narrator-techniques that he was among the first, if not
the first, to use-to explore the complexities of their inner lives
even as he delineates their social world with elegance and wit. The
results are comic, tragic, powerful, and psychologically compelling
tales of love, sex, and death that often surprise. They are as
fresh and relevant to us today, a century later, as when they were
first written.
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