SOURCE: Peaco, Ed. Review of Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer. Antioch Review 60, no. 3 (summer 2002): 531.

In the following review of Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas, Peaco contends that Dream Story is reminiscent of the stories of Franz Kafka.

Those who read Schnitzler (1862-1931), a Viennese observer of his city's contradictions and decadence, must face the discomfort of learning a great deal about desperate souls. [In Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas a]n adulterous woman leaves the scene of an accident in which her lover dies. A man whose wife has just died finds love letters to her from his best friend, who is about to arrive for the funeral. In the novella Night Games, the rise and fall of a young gambler's fortunes and his increasingly flawed reasoning unfold in obsessive, tortuous detail, such that his...