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Stefan Zweig

Born

in Vienna, Austria

November 28, 1881

Died

February 22, 1942

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Stend Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Arthur Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud, Rainer Maria Rilke ...more

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Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Zweig's essays include studies of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Drei Meister, 1920; Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. His stories include those in Verwirrung der Gefühle (1925; Conflicts). He also wrote a psychological novel, Ungeduld des Herzens (1938; Beware of Pity), and translated works of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Emile Verhaeren.
Most recently, his works provided the inspiration for 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel. ...more

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· 564,567 ratings · 52,784 reviews · 1,635 distinct works • Similar authors

	Chess Story 4.27 avg rating — 148,315 ratings — published 1942 — 876 editions	Want to Read saving… Want to Read Currently Reading Read Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu 4.11 avg rating — 58,793 ratings — published 1922 — 390 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat 3.90 avg rating — 36,503 ratings — published 1925 — 426 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	The World of Yesterday 4.51 avg rating — 25,690 ratings — published 1942 — 401 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Korku by Stefan Zweig, İlknur İgan (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 26,110 ratings — published 1910 — 46 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig, Phyllis Blewitt (Translator), Trevor Blewitt (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 18,175 ratings — published 1939 — 337 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Olağanüstü Bir Gece 3.92 avg rating — 19,228 ratings — published 1922 — 123 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Amok Koşucusu by Stefan Zweig, Nafer Ermiş (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 18,034 ratings — published 1922 — 405 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Mendel el de los libros by Stefan Zweig, Berta Vias Mahou 4.02 avg rating — 15,631 ratings — published 1929 — 69 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas by Stefan Zweig, Berta Vias Mahou 4.24 avg rating — 14,767 ratings — published 1927 — 484 editions	Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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Die Baumeister der Welt (3 books)
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بناة العالم (2 books)
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Колекция новели (2 books)
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Избрани творби в пет тома (5 books)
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4.68 avg rating — 22 ratings

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“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

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“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

tags: curiousity, intelligence, mystery, puzzle, trail

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“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

tags: disappointment, heart, loneliness, love

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February 2019 Short Story Poll

Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 64 pages, 1776

 

  84 votes, 28.4%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

 

  79 votes, 26.7%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 64 pages, 1853

 

  57 votes, 19.3%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

 

  52 votes, 17.6%

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, 128 pages, 1955

 

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