Dream story
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 are driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.
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What Hacker News says
- > It's such a bizarre wonderful dreamworld of the human psyche that Kubrick created. Like if Kubrick made a Fellini film.
Of course The Shining shows that what Kubrick makes of a novel is not necessarily what the author made, but it's probably worth giving some credit for the dreamworld to Schnitzler—the novel is literally called, or so Wikipedia tells me it translates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Story), Dream Story.
- Slightly OT.
Still remember reading the book the movie is based on: “Traumnovelle” by Arthur Schnitzler.
Having read this during high school and also AFTER seeing the movie adaption, iirc the closing conversation vary by quite a bit.
