All That I Am
Quotes from the Book
Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.
It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.
- Acho que devemos estar gratos ao destino por termos saído ilesos dessas aventuras - tanto as reais como as que sonhámos. - Tens a certeza disso? - interregou ele. - Sim, como também tenho a certeza que não é a realidade de uma única noite, nem a de toda uma vida que corresponde à verdade intrínseca de um ser humano. - Nem sonho algum - suspirou ele calmamente - é inteiramente sonho. Albertine segurou-lhe a cabeça com ambas as mãos e encostou-a ao seio. - Agora estamos plenamente acordados - observou ela - por muito tempo.
By a pretty, untranslatable pun, Traum (the German for a dream) and trauma were almost indistinguishable in the Vienna which was at home to both.
Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story of my life.
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About Arthur Schnitzler
About the book
Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of human sexuality.
Arthur Schnitzler is probably most famous for La Ronde, a play too scandalous to publish or perform in his own lifetime but whose daisy-chain of couplings inspired both Max Ophuls's classic film and David Hare's modernized version, The Blue Room, which played to sell-out audiences in the West End and on Broadway. Dream Story is an equally erotic work, in which a married couple are first traumatized and then achieve a new depth of understanding by confessing to each other their sexual fantasies, dream-like adventures and might-have-beens . . .
Taking us on a guided tour of Vienna's seedy cafés, red-light district, decadent villas, hospitals and morgue, Schnitzler brilliantly uncovers the violence and depravity
Book details
- First published
- 1926
- Author
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 3.75 (23k ratings)
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