(Original Review from the German and English editions, 2002-06-03)Someone might say that there is a danger of a kind of blinkered euphoria surrounding a writer like Zweig, the mobilising of an army of too easily won over devotees, Sunday supplement blurb believers who can recognise a compelling nove...
(Original Review from the German and English editions, 2002-06-05)"The World of Yesterday" has its flaws - some of the scenes that Zweig claims to have witnessed, particularly around the outbreak and conclusion of the Great War seem such extraordinary coincidences as to be barely credible. And on th...
All phenomena, all humanity is to be recognized only in its fiery form, only in passion.Με αφήγηση μεταγενέστερη των γεγονότων και προγραμματική διάσταση ανάμεσα στον ώριμο αφηγητή και στην εφηβική συνείδηση μέσω της οποίας προσλαμβάνονται τα γεγονότα, ο Zweig στήνει τη νουβέλα του στη βάση της σύγχ...
‘Beware of Pity’ by Stefan Zweig is a psychological depiction of Lieutenant Anton Hofmiller . The only mistake he does is when he asks Edith Kekesfalva, a crippled girl for a dance ‘Unknowingly’. This actually turns into a major blunder and ruins his and the girl’s entire life. Well, on the other ha...
The Great War of 1914-18 had been raging in Europe and other parts of the world for over a year, when in December 1915 the little known French writer Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love o...
In his time Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was one of the most famous and most successful German-language writers, but when – despairing at the political situation in his country of origin (he was Austrian of Jewish descent) – he took his own life in Brazilian exile, he knew that he was a relic of The Wor...
After Wes Anderson used Stefan Zweig’s stories as the inspiration for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zweig has been everywhere. Pushkin Press’s collection, The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig, offers curious readers another taste, a taste that will surprise them. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a madcap s...
--Fantastic Night--Forgotten Dreams--A Summer Novella--The Governess--Compulsion--Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman--Incident on Lake Geneva--Mendel the Bibliophile--The Debt Paid Late--Moonbeam Alley--Letter from an Unknown WomanDate of First Publication in German
--The Invisible Collection: An episode from the time of German inflation--Twilight--The Miracles of Life--A Story Told in Twilight--Wondrak [unfinished]--Downfall of the Heart--Leporella--Did He Do It?--Amok--The Star Above the ForestDate of First Publication in German
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud - detail of a painting by Henri Fantin-Latour (1872) Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses. - Paul Verlaine I chanced upon this little book while looking for a good biography of Paul Verlaine,(*) and though Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) apparently wrote P...
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