book cover of Wicked Dreams
 

Wicked Dreams

(2023)
A novel by

 
 
The story that inspired Eyes Wide Shut is a tale of unbearable agony and desire. Newly translated and with a critical essay comparing Kubrick's masterful adaption to the novel.

Wicked Dreams is about Freddy, a doctor in Vienna, who becomes tormented by jealousy when he realizes that his emotionally abandoned wife, Albertine, has a secret fantasy life. Called out in the middle of an argument, he finds himself on a journey to the end of night, navigating his way through erotic nightmares and delicate fantasies.
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ -Arthur Schnitzler


Genre: Literary Fiction

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