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, Much Like His Contemporary E.m. Forster, Was Liberal And Humanist To The Core, Gambling On Human Goodness Against The Specters Of Oppression And Despair. In 1938, Nazism Forced Zweig Into Exile. Chess Story, Sometimes Known As The Royal Game, Was The Last Thing He Wrote Before He And His Wife Committed Suicide. This Novella Is A Final Effort To Take The Human Measure Of The Inhuman. On A Great Ocean Liner, The World Champion Of Chess Confronts A Lawyer With A Surprising Talent For The Game In A Tense Contest Of Wit And Will. How The Lawyer Acquired His Skill And At What Terrible Cost Are The Substance Of A Story, In Which, At The Same Time, Quietly But Unmistakably, The Death Knell Of The Enlightenment Is Sounded.--jacket. Stefan Zweig ; Translated From The German By Joel Rotenberg ; Introduction By Peter Gay.

Documents The Tragic Story Of Intellectual, Humanitarian And Best-selling Author Stefan Zweig To Trace His Rapid Downfall After The Rise Of The Nazi Party And The Years Of Exile In Various World Regions That Culminated In His 1942 Suicide. By The Author Of In Pursuit Of Silence.

"Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back."—Salman Rushdie The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. 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 and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom. Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel.

A Wonderful Collection Of Four Stefan Zweig Novellas: Amok, The Star Above The Forest, Leporella, And Incident On Lake Geneva. Zweig's Four Tragic And Moving Cameos Of The Human Condition Are Played Out Against Cosmopolitan And Colonial Backgrounds In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century.

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 of his rich employer. His love is returned, and the couple vow to live together, but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico, and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic shut down, Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?Publishers WeeklyA focused new translation of the late Zweig's (1881 1942) gorgeous and sad novella spotlights the hopeless passion between a young man and his employer's wife. Ludwig, an ambitious young man from an impoverished background, finds employment with a famous industrialist in Frankfurt-am-Main and is eventually pressed into service as the industrialist's private secretary, living in his house, where he befriends his boss's radiant, sympathetic wife and finds in her an artistic kinship. A passion develops, cut short by the exigencies of the metals business, then by the eruption of WWI, and the two, despite the intervening years and Ludwig's own marriage, eventually embark on an overnight trip together. Moving back and forth through time, Zweig pursues the couple to their destination, where they are confronted by a military demonstration that bludgeons their fragile memories with the cold, crass present. Bell's faultless translation easily conveys the smoldering engine of Zweig's writhing inner consciousness. (Nov.)

„was Für Ein Irrtum: 1507 Schreibt Matthias Ringmann In Der „cosmographiae Introductio“ Das Der Italienische Seefahrer Americus Vespucci (die Latinisierte Form Von „amerigo“) Den Amerikanischen Kontinent Entdeckt Habe. Daher Könne Man Den Kontinent Nach Ihm Benennen – Americus, Oder Weiblich: America.“ Redaktion Gröls-verlag (edition Werke Der Weltliteratur)

A Casual Introduction, A Challenge To A Simple Game Of Chess, A Lovers' Reunion, A Meaningless Infidelity: From Such Small Seeds Zweig Brings Forth Five Startlingly Tense Tales--meditations On The Fragility Of Love, The Limits Of Obsession, The Combustibility Of Secrets And Betrayal. To Read Anything By Zweig Is To Risk Addiction; In This Collection The Power Of His Writing--which, With Its Unabashed Intensity And Narrative Drive, Made Him One Of The Bestselling And Most Acclaimed Authors In The World--is Clear And Irresistible. Each Of These Stories Is A Bolt Of Experience, Unforgettable And Unique. Five Of Stefan Zweig's Most Powerful Novellas, Containing Some Of His Most Famous And Best-loved Work: * Burning Secret * A Chess Story * Fear * Confusion * Journey Into The Past (stand Alone Paperback Editions Of Individual Novellas From Pushkin And New York Review Of Books Will Remain In Print.)