Showing results for "Arthur" in Psychological

A married couple, Fridolin and Albertine, are troubled by events and jealous of each other’s attentions the night before at a masquerade ball. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man, an elderly councilor, whose daughter he finds attractive and vaguely sensual. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who, taken by a friend to a “secret” party, is forced to make more choices that seemingly are beyond his control.

Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.

Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past from the authors of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Wife Stalker. ""Jaw-dropping twists with an unsettling edge that you’ll need a few days at the beach to...

Fräulein Else: Eine Novelle von Arthur Schnitzler, gelesen von Sabrina Worsch. Fräulein Else ist eine 1924 erschienene Monolog-Novelle des österreichischen Schriftstellers Arthur Schnitzler. Else T., Tochter eines Wiener Rechtsanwalts, befindet sich für einige Urlaubstage im Trentiner Kurort San Martino di Castrozza, finanziert durch ihre Tante Emma.

Als Arthur Schnitzler 1925 seine Erzählung veröffentlichte, durchlief die Wiener Gesellschaft ein Schauder. Die Gnadenlosigkeit, mit der er den Seelengrund eines gesitteten Ehepaares bloßlegte, schockierte die Gemüter. Der Stoff erfuhr nach Schnitzlers Tod zahlreiche Adaptionen. Zu den bekanntesten gehört Stanley Kubricks Verfilmung Eyes Wide Shut mit Nicole Kidman und Tom Cruise in den Hauptrollen. 100 Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung der Novelle begeben sich Schauspieler Andreas Pietschmann und Musiker Stefan Weinzierl auf einen nächtlichen Streifzug.

Una giovane donna, ospite della zia nel Grand Hotel di San Martino di Castrozza, per salvare il padre dalla rovina economica deve mostrarsi nuda a un vecchio...

Lyman Felt has it all: wealth, success, power, and the kind of good, solid wife he needs. Oh, and he also has another wife, the kind of earthy, sexy woman he wants. Lyman juggles his artful lie until a car accident on the slippery slope of Mt. Morgan lands him in a hospital bed—with two wives in the waiting room. But really, is there any such thing as "just an accident"?

In una notte rubata a una vita senza scosse, Emma ricerca la poesia nella passione di un abbraccio con il suo amante, vivendo la sua avventura ignara delle conseguenze cui il destino la metterà di fronte. Con una prosa modulata alla perfezione sulle emozioni e i sentimenti dei protagonisti, Arthur Schnitzler, alter-ego letterario di Sigmund Freud e autore del racconto "Doppio Sogno" che ha ispirato "Eyes Wide Shut" di Stanley Kubrick, ci mette davanti a un dramma umano fatto di egoismi, frustrazioni e banalità di una vita senza direzione.

An artist creates paintings that create emotions. Staring at the painting for too long, people become mesmerized, acting out what they witnessed on the canvas.

In the aftermath of a devastating loss, Cal and Jenny Horigan's marriage is unraveling. Both are plagued by guilt, unable to seek comfort from one another. Burdened by remorse, they begin to lose sight of the love that once anchored them-together with their sense of right and wrong.As the Horigans try different ways to deal with their pain, a new acquaintance seems to offer the support they desperately need-though at times they are unsure whether his guidance is leading them back to each other or further apart...

Elle is a survivor. She’s managed to piece together a solid life from a childhood of broken memories and fairy tales her mom told her to explain away bad dreams. But weekly visits to her mother still fill Elle with a paralyzing fear she can’t explain. It’s just another of so many unanswered questions she grew up with in a family estranged by silence and secrets.

Arthur Schnitzler esamina le peripezie e le incoerenze del sentimento umano con un'illuminazione che stupisce il lettore per la sua modernità. Il destino del barone Von Leisenbohg si pone come un pullulare di passioni che presentano una capacità duratura di indagine. La prefigurazione di un fato inevitabile e un prisma prolifico di amori rassegnati, traditi o impossibili, pongono le basi per la raffinita struttura di questa novella.