Stefan Zweig
1) Chess Story
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion...
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion...
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Collected in one volume for the very first time: 22 classic short stories of love and death, betrayal and hope—from a master storyteller hailed as “the Updike of his day” (New York Observer)
In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death...
In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death...
3) Confusion
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An NYRB Classics Original
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning—as...
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning—as...
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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...
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El campeón mundial de ajedrez, Mirko Czentovic, viaja en un buque de vapor desde Nueva York hacia Buenos Aires a disputar un torneo. McConnor, un obstinado pasajero aficionado, desde que se entera de su presencia no descansa hasta lograr jugar una partida con él, pero no le sale barato: doscientos cincuenta dólares por partida es el precio de Czentovic. El devenir de los acontecimientos cambia cuando entra en escena el doctor B., un personaje extraño...
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Auf einem Passagierdampfer, der von New York nach Buenos Aires unterwegs ist, fordert ein Millionär gegen Honorar den mit einer Art mechanischer Präzision spielenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic zu einer Partie heraus. Der mitreisende Dr. B., ein österreichischer Emigrant, greift beratend ein und erreicht so ein Remis für den Herausforderer. Er hat sich, von der Gestapo, die ihn verhaftete, in ein Hotelzimmer gesperrt und von der Außenwelt...
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Mir scheint, dass wenige über die Liebe und Freundschaft so tief, mit einem so unermesslichen Mitgefühl für den Menschen geschrieben haben wie Stefan Zweig' (Maxim Gorki) Eine Neuaufname ausgewählter Texte von Stefan Zweig: Alexander Khuon liest Brennendes Geheimnis, Wolfram Koch liest Meistererzählungen und Hanns Zischler liest Essays.
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Mit Musik aus der Ersteinspielung von Händels Messiah-Urfassung, durch den Gutenberg-Kammerchor und dem Neumeyer Consort unter der Leitung von Felix Koch mit der Solistin und den Solisten Stefanie Schaefer, Fabian Kelly und Julian Dominique Clement.
Diese Aufnahme verknüpft Teile des Oratoriums mit dem Text aus Stefan Zweigs Sternstunden der Menschheit. Darin wird geschildert, wie Händel im Jahr 1741 während der Genesung nach einem Schlaganfall...
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Stefan Zweig selbst sagt über die Legende: "Es ist dies eine große Legende, angelehnt an das Schicksal des siebenarmigen Leuchters, der von Jerusalem nach Babylon wanderte, von dort zurückkam, dann wieder von Titus nach Rom gebracht wurde, von Rom geraubt wurde durch die Vandalen nach Karthago; aus Karthago wieder von Belisar erobert und nach Byzanz gebracht, die merkwürdigste Wanderung über die Erde, die ein religiöses Kunstwerk vielleicht...
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Stefan Zweig es un escritor, dramaturgo y periodista austriaco. Amigo de Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig fue miembro de la intelectualidad judía vienesa antes de dejar su país natal en 1934, a la edad de cincuenta y tres años, a causa del ascenso del nazismo. Como refugiado en Londres, continuó allí su trabajo literario, como biógrafo (Joseph Fouché, María Antonieta, María Estuardo) pero sobre todo como autor...
11) Trip to Russia
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"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First World War, he went searching for alternative forms of society,...
16) A promise
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A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another. Eight years later, with millions dead and Europe in ruins, the exile returns, to his homeland and to the woman he hopes has been waiting for him. But has their love survived the brutal passage of time?
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In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
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Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book...