Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas

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.