Let's read Dream Story (Rhapsody) by Arthur Schnitzler

Published in 1926, Traumnovelle (Dream Story, Rhapsody) has been described as a tale of one man’s journey through the hidden depths of his own psyche. Set in fin-de-siècle Vienna, Schnitzler’s story exposes the hypocrisies of bourgeois culture by exploring the repressed desires, fantasies, and passions underneath the surface of a seemingly happy marriage. Commentators note that Schnitzler also addresses themes of sexual fantasy, jealousy, obsession, and death. In 1999, Dream Story was adapted for Stanley Kubrick’s film Eyes Wide Shut.

A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung-Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions...he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.

Schnitzler's works were called "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler and were banned by the Nazis in Austria and Germany. In 1933, when Joseph Goebbels organized book burnings in Berlin and other cities, Schnitzler's works were thrown into flames along with those of other Jews, including Einstein, Marx, Kafka, Freud and Stefan Zweig. (Non Jews, such as Hesse, Hemingway, Dos Passos, London, were also burned)

(Above is loosely adapted from Wikipedia)
Wayne will be using this edition: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Games-Other-Stories-Novellas/dp/1566635063/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3OQCUU2391JS1&keywords=schnitzler&qid=1576457631&sprefix=%2Caps%2C468&sr=8-2