Author(s): Stefan Zweig (Author), Anthea Bell (Afterword, Translator)
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2009
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 1901285863
ISBN-13: 9781901285864
Book Description
Compulsion, In the Snow and Wondrak all concern Zweig’s strong anti-war feelings following the First World War. The artist Ferdinand, central figure of Compulsion, partly reflects Zweig’s own experience. In The Snow tells of the plight of a group of Jews who freeze to death while trying to escape a medieval pogrom. In Wondrak, a woman, disfigured since birth, attempts to save her only child from being drafted into the military. In this newly available English translation the reader discovers the essential humanist preoccupations of the author of Amok and Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman: his compassion towards human suffering, his horror of war and his faith in idealism, generosity, love values that can, in an instant, illuminate an entire existence.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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 Guardian
In 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 TLS
Fortunately, the Pushkin Press has been publishing some of Zweig’s works in fluent translations and handsome editions … My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books. ANTHONY DANIELS The Sunday Telegraph — This latest volume in Pushkin Press’s wonderful edition of Zweig (is) effortlessly great. –DAVID SEXTON Evening Standard
In 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 TLS
Fortunately, the Pushkin Press has been publishing some of Zweig’s works in fluent translations and handsome editions … My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books. ANTHONY DANIELS The Sunday Telegraph — This latest volume in Pushkin Press’s wonderful edition of Zweig (is) effortlessly great. –DAVID SEXTON Evening Standard
About 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.
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