by Arthur Schnitzler · tapa blanda · ISBN 8022264181839
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In "Doppio sogno", an innocent confession unleashes a crisis in a marriage. Albertine reveals to her husband Fridolin her fantasies about an unknown officer, leading them to explore forbidden desires and repressed temptations. In a night of evasions, Fridolin seeks an erotic adventure to avenge his wife's moral infidelity, while Albertine dreams of the satisfaction that her married life denies her. Schnitzler's novel, published in 1926 in Vienna, in Freud's time, and popularized by Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation, exposes the fragility of bourgeois morality in the face of the power of eros and explores the ambiguity between the conscious and the unconscious, immersing the reader in a game of mirrors where the real mixes with the dreamlike and dreams feel true.
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler's works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, dissected turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900. Schnitzler's Jewish upbringing and the sexual content of his works made them controversial or banned in his time and beyond.
