Stefan Zweig

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Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well." 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.

Beware of Pity

The Post-Office Girl

Olaganüstü Bir Gece

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.

An Autobiography

The World of Yesterday

لاعب الشطرنج

Hint Adaları’nda görev yapan bir doktorun hayatı, bir gün kendisini ziyaret eden bir kadının yasadışı yardım talebiyle karşı karşıya kaldığı tercih yüzünden alt üst olur. Kendi gururu ve vicdanı arasında sıkışan köy doktoru gururuna yenik düşer ve bu zengin kadının yardım talebini geri çevirir. Hemen sonra çok pişman olsa da artık hiçbir şey eskisi gibi olmayacaktır. Bir amok gibi durmamacasına, nereye gittiğini bilmeden koşmaya başlar; bir delilik halinde, önüne çıkan her şeyi yok ederek, öldürerek... Stefan Zweig’ın en önemli eserleri arasında yer alan Amok Koşucusu, psikolojik gerilimli karakterleri ve atmosferiyle yazarın eserlerinde ve hayatında önemli bir yere sahip ölüm ve intihar kavramlarına odaklanır.

Ölüme koşmak, ölümle koşmak...

Amok Koşucusu

Satrang

In de jaren dertig reizen twee schaakliefhebbers toevallig op hetzelfde schip van New York naar Buenos Aires. Om de tijd te doden besluiten ze tegen elkaar te spelen. Wie zal winnen, de wereldkampioen of de geheimzinnige Doctor B.? Met opdrachten en een cd. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.

Schachnovelle

Bilinmeyen bir kadının mektubu

Korku

A previously unpublished novella, which was found among the author's stories after his death, investigates the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, telling the story of Louis, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. Original.

Journey Into the Past

أربع وعشرون ساعة من حياة امرأة

مانديل بائع الكتب القديمة

الخوف

رسالة من مجهولة

Bir Kadinin Yasamindan Yirmi Dört Saat

Qui est cet inconnu capable d'en remontrer au grand Czentovic, le champion mondial des échecs, véritable prodige aussi fruste qu'antipathique ? Peut-on croire, comme il l'affirme, qu'il n'a pas joué depuis plus de vingt ans ? Voilà un mystère que les passagers oisifs de ce paquebot de luxe aimeraient bien percer. Le narrateur y parviendra. Les circonstances dans lesquelles l'inconnu a acquis cette science sont terribles. Elles nous reportent aux expérimentations nazies sur les effets de l'isolement absolu, lorsque, aux frontières de la folie, entre deux interrogatoires, le cerveau humain parvient à déployer ses facultés les plus étranges. Une fable inquiétante, fantastique, qui, comme le dit le personnage avec une ironie douloureuse, pourrait servir d'illustration à la charmante époque où nous vivons.

Le joueur d'échecs

Satranc

Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman , the inspiration for a classic 1948 Hollywood film by Max Ophüls, as well as three new stories, appearing in English for the first time. A famous author receives a letter on his forty-first birthday. He doesn't know the sender, but still the letter concerns him intimately. Its story is earnest, even piteous: the story of a life lived in service to an unannounced, unnoticed love. In the other stories in this 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 repays a debt of gratitude. All four tales, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among Zweig's most celebrated and compelling work-expertly paced, laced with empathy and an unwaveringly acute sense of psychological detail.

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