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Fantastic Night & other stories
Author(s): Stefan Zweig (Author), Anthea Bell (Translator), Cedar Paul (Translator), Eden Paul (Translator)
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication Date: 27 Feb. 2006
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 168 pages
- ISBN-10: 1901285545
- ISBN-13: 9781901285543
Book Description
Five of Stefan Zweig’s most compelling novellas are presented together in this powerful volume. Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and give him a newfound relish for life, which is then cut short by the Great War. Fantastic Night is joined by The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel, two of Zweig’s most powerful works, which explore lives led in the single minded pursuit of art and literature against a backdrop of poverty and corruption. And finally, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Zweig’s poignant and heartbreaking tale of the strength and madness of unrequited love and The Fowler Snared, in which it is the man whose passion remains unrequited, complete the collection.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Fortunately, the Pushkin Press has been publishing some of Zweig’s work in fluent translations and handsome editions: it is thus performing a valuable service for British literary culture… My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books — Anthony Daniels ― The Sunday Telegraph
One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig’s work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society — Nicholas Lezard ―
The GuardianIn the 1920s and 30s, Stefan Zweig was one of the most famous writers in the world. Thanks to the enterprising Pushkin Press, it is now possible to read the novellas on which his reputation must finally depend — Paul Bailey ―
Times Literary SupplementAbout the Author
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity,and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
