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Stefan Zweigs episches Werk machte ihn ebenso berühmt wie seine historischen Miniaturen und die biographischen Arbeiten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.neuegalerie.org\/products\/chess-story?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=16582ff4b\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e110 pages \u003cbr\u003eText in German\u003cbr\u003eFischer Verlag, 1992\u003cbr\u003eOriginally Published in 1942\u003cbr\u003e7.4 x 4.7 x 0.4 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9783596215225\u003cbr\u003eFiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263506064,"sku":"9783596215225","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Schachnovelle_Stefan-Zweig.jpg?v=1593028462"},{"product_id":"meisternovellen-by-stefan-zweig","title":"Meisternovellen","description":"\u003cp\u003eVon Stefan Zweig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stefan Zweig's Novellen wenden die neu gewonnenen Erkenntnisse der zeitgenössischen Psychologie in einem biegsamen, fast nervös vibrierenden Stil auf ihre Themen an.\"  —Richard Friedenthal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e490 pages\u003cbr\u003eText in German\u003cbr\u003eFischer Verlag, 2001\u003cbr\u003e4.7 x 1.1 x 7.5 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9783596149919\u003cbr\u003eFiction, Novellas \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":263522558,"sku":"9783596149919","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Zweig_Meisternovellen.jpg?v=1634591081"},{"product_id":"confusion-by-stephan-zweig","title":"Confusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Stefan Zweig\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Anthea Bell\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by George Prochnik\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eConfusion\u003c\/em\u003e is one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires . . . a perfect reminder of, or introduction to, Zweig’s economy and subtlety as a writer.”—Robert Macfarlane, \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eConfusion\u003c\/em\u003e, which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. 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He takes it upon himself to urge his teacher to finish the great work of scholarship that he has been laboring at for years and even offers to help him in any way he can. The professor welcomes the young man’s attentions, at least on some days. On others, he rages without apparent reason or turns away from his disciple with cold scorn. The young man is baffled, wounded. He cannot understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the wife understands. She understands perfectly. 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His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig’s writing in arguably his most revealing work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefan Zweig (1881–1942) was born in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig traveled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoyed literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. 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Zweig has chronicled a hopeless and tragic relationship in a manner that so holds the reader as never to dispirit him, telling a story full of psychological pitfalls that only an experienced writer, and an experienced human being could dare to attempt . . . 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