Stefan Zweig
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Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle Neu editiert, in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung und mit Kurzbiographie des Autors im Anhang. Vollständig verlinkt und mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Auf einem Passagierdampfer, auf der Passage von New York nach Buenos Aires, kommt es zu einer außergewöhnlichen Konfrontation: Der amtierende Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic, ein derber, unsensibler Mensch, dessen Inselbegabung für Schach alleine und verloren in charakterlicher...
2) Chess story
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"The art of the great Austian writer Stefan Zweig was a difficult balancing act. Zweig's major subject was human limitation, above all the ways in which the best of intentions can lead people into the murkiest of emotional and moral cul-de-sacs. And yet Zweig also hoped to illumine those dark places of the heart and mind, to show that it is not, finally, impossible to attain a true perspective on our limitations, even to care for each other. Zweig,...
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In der Rahmenhandlung reist der namenlose Ich-Erzähler im Jahre 1912 mit dem Überseedampfer Oceania von Indonesien nach Europa. Bei einem nächtlichen Spaziergang auf dem Deck begegnet er einem Mann, der sichtlich verwirrt und ängstlich wirkt und jede Gesellschaft auf dem Schiff meidet. Eine Nacht darauf trifft der Ich-Erzähler diesen Mann erneut auf dem Deck an. Anfangs...
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A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife...
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"Breathtaking ... unlike anything I have ever read before" - The Guardian
The Burning Secret is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story - a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig.
A suave baron, bored on holiday, takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer...
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"Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity...
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Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Austria of Jewish parents. He was a prolific writer of biography, essays, and short stories. His wrote the anti-war play Jeremiah while in the army himself; it was staged in Switzerland in 1918. Scripture relates how the prophet Jeremiah warned that insurrection against Babylon under the auspices of Egypt would lead to the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, and the enslavement of the Jews. He was declared...
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"-¿Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?".
"Una de las historias más apasionantes y bien estructuradas...
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Steerforth Press
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2013
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These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joane Fontaine.
Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman...
Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman...
10) Nietzsche
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Steerforth Press
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2021
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A scintillating biographical study of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.
In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. This work, concentrating on the man rather than the work, on the tragedy of his existence and his apartness from the world in which he moved in enforced isolation,...
In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. This work, concentrating on the man rather than the work, on the tragedy of his existence and his apartness from the world in which he moved in enforced isolation,...
11) Confusion
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2012
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An NYRB Classics Original
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning—as...
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning—as...
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Innerhalb der darstellenden Reihe Die Baumeister der Welt, mit der ich versuche, den schöpferischen Geistwillen in seinen entscheidenden Typen und diese Typen wiederum durch Gestalten zu veranschaulichen, bedeutet dieser dritte Band gleichzeitig Gegenspiel und Ergänzung der vorangegangenen. Der Weg der Drei Dichter ihres Lebens führt nun nicht wie bei jenen ins Unendliche hinaus und nicht wie bei diesen in die reale Welt, sondern einzig in sich...
13) Viaje al pasado
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"Viaje al pasado" (llamado también por su autor "Resistencia de la realidad" y publicado por Acantilado en el volumen "La mujer y el paisaje") narra la historia del reencuentro, al cabo de muchos años y en un mundo definitivamente nuevo, de dos seres que se amaron y que creen amarse aún. Separados por la Gran Guerra antes de poder objetivar su amor, se encuentran ahora inmovilizados por la resistencia a poder llevarlo adelante, tan fuerte es la...
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Un pintor recibe el encargo de realizar un cuadro de la Virgen con el Niño. El cuadro acompañará en un retablo a otro de increíble belleza, lo que enorgullece pero asusta al artista. Tras buscar y buscar sin éxito una modelo, un día, por casualidad, encuentra a una joven judía que representa toda la belleza, ternura e inocencia que él necesita. Tras convencerla para que pose, y una vez que ella vence sus miedos y recelos, se establece entre...
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Esta conferencia, pronunciada en Buenos Aires en 1940, muestra el modo de Zweig de entender el arte, y de realizarlo. Desde el asombro, el arte aparece como lo sublime, que supera al hombre y apunta a la esfera de Dios como artista supremo. El libro incluye también la conferencia La historia como poetisa: una historia que hace arte, al tiempo que muestra sus momentos más sublimes.
16) Émile Verhaeren
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Émile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and he was one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. He was one of the most prolific poets of his era. The outbreak of World War I had a devastating effect on the poet's deep pacifist feelings. He went to England, where he received honorary degrees from various universities.By the turn of the century, he had become world-famous. His works were translated into more than...
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Die Villa lag hart am Meer. - In den stillen, dämmerreichen Piniengängen atmete die satte Kraft der salzhaltigen Seeluft und eine leichte beständige Brise spielte um die Orangenbäume und streifte hie und da, wie mit vorsichtigen Fingern, eine farbenbunte Blüte herab.
18) María Antonieta
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María Antonieta nació en Viena en 1755, hija del emperador austríaco Francisco I y de María Teresa. En mayo de 1770 contrajo matrimonio, cuando tenía catorce años, con Luis XVI de Francia. De nuevo la destreza de Stefan Zweig para el retrato y su finísima comprensión del alma humana se unen para dibujar un cuadro extraordinario de la más famosa víctima de la guillotina: su tormentosa llegada a Versalles, la frustración ante la frialdad...
19) Paul Verlaine
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Stefan Zweig beschreibt in seiner Biographie von "Paul Verlaine" einen führenden Lyriker des Symbolismus, der viele spätere französische Dichter beeinflusste. Seine hochmusikalischen Verse bringen feinste Gefühlsregungen und Zwischentöne zum Ausdruck. Verlaines Maxime lautete: „De la musique avant toute chose." Die Thematik reicht von morbider Erotik bis zu ekstatischer Frömmigkeit. Er hat besonders die Kunst der Neuromantik beeinflusst. (Auszug...
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Stefan Zweig escribió esta obra de teatro entre la primavera de 1915 y principios de 1917, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial. Pacifista acérrimo, escogió la figura de Jeremías, el profeta judío que predicaba en vano, para encarnar el trágico papel del "derrotista", como tildaban los enardecidos patriotas partidarios del conflicto bélico a aquellos que, como Zweig, defendían la importancia de llegar a un entendimiento entre las naciones. El autor...