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Doppio sogno

Arthur Schnitzler, Giuseppe Farese

3.57 AVERAGE

_ela_r's review against another edition

4.75

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oscarkrikman's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Bloody fantastic little book. Almost as good as the film

ligiat's review against another edition

5.0

A good story,
The name it gives it justice: a story about a dream and a story that feels like it was a dream.
And it ends so beautifully strange. The couple accepts their inability to fight against who they are, what their desires are, but accepting complete devotion to each other, and the strength to accept each other’s experience and accept the actions without actually feeling disappointed or offended.

Beautiful, strange, mesmerising.

lottiewoof's review against another edition

4.0

A book that I enjoyed greatly, but that left me scratching my head. I almost felt as though I had missed the point somehow, and found myself researching it online as soon as I finished, in an attempt to find some hidden analogy that I may have missed.

But, no. Apparently feeling baffled is an entirely natural response to Schnitzler's prose. You see, following Dr Fridolin through Vienna was much like falling into a dream in itself - as the events of no more than 48 hours become more and more ludicrous, so the reader is dragged further into the absurd.

Spoiler

The journey begins with the familiar mundanity of comfortable family as a child is put to bed. Then a more extreme, but still relatively commonplace scene when the Doctor is called to a deathbed. From here to a prostitute's rooms - perhaps a little scandalous but not unheard of. And then, almost out of nowhere, our protagonist dives into a bizarre hidden world of secret societies, upper class orgies, depravity, and even murder.

This sudden escalation, akin to event progression in a dream world, left me clinging on for dear life, convinced that I had missed an important detail or key event. It felt like stepping off the shelf of a tiered swimming pool, to find oneself inexplicably out of ones depth.

So yes... a curious read. But thoroughly entertaining, and executed with great intelligence; an interesting follow-up to my previous read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy'. Two interesting literary explorations of sex and human relationships.