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Stefan Zweig desarrolló una importante labor narrativa, en relatos y novelas marcados por el análisis psicológico de los personajes y la cuidadosa descripción de ambientes y situaciones límite, en los que sobresalen titulos como Novela de ajedrez, El can

Publicada l'any 1937, un un moment de plena consolidació del nazisme antisemita, aquesta novel la pren com a pretext el pelegrinatge de la menora, el canelobre sagrat jueu, robat per Titus a Jerusalem, pels vandals a Roma i novament reprès per Justinia i transportat a Constantinoble. Zweig traça un drama punyent i de gran potència plastica seguint el recorregut de l'objecte sagrat.

El joven estudiante Roland, entregado a una vida disoluta y despreocupada, y a punto de dejar los estudios, es enviado por su padre a una pequeña universidad ubicada en una ciudad de provincias en Alemania. Alli conocera al que sera su maestro, guia y, q

TEXTOS ESCOGIDOS es un libro del autor Zweig, Stefan editado por CALAMBUR. TEXTOS ESCOGIDOS tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-8359-412-4, de la colección TEXTOS DESATADOS.

An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig.Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man's madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.' Simon Winchester, Telegraph'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you.' Economist'His great achievement in short form'The Times A staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War, Stefan Zweig was, at his peak, one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world. Following Hitler's rise to power, he and his second wife fled Austria; first to England, then to America, and finally, in 1940, they travelled together to Brazil, where the couple took an overdose and died. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Impatience of the Heart, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host''s lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.

en turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig "Such dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date, a single hour, even just a single minute, rarely occur in everyday life, and only rarely in the course of history." One of the twentieth century's great humanists and a hugely popular fiction writer, Stefan Zweig's historical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor. This collection contains ten typically breathless and erudite dramatizations of some of the most tense and important episodes in human history. From General Grouchy's failure to intervene at Waterloo, to the miraculous resurrection of George Frideric Handel, this, Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points, newly translated by Anthea Bell, is idiosyncratic, fascinating and as always hugely readable. The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life' Philosophy Football 'Shooting Stars forms part of an ambitious project by Pushkin Press to bring Zweig's work to the attention of the English-reading public, an enterprise that has been entirely successful. Zweigmania seems to break out with the publication of each book, with readers discovering his work by word-of-mouth and by accident.

El caballero de Casa Roja cierra el ciclo de la Revolución Francesa, y nos narra algunos intentos de la reina por escapar durante su juicio. Fue llevado al teatro por Dumas, también en colaboración con Maquet, en un drama en cinco actos que se estreno e

Viajero infatigable, traductor, poeta, novelista, biógrafo y ensayista, La obra de Stefan Zweig tiene las más diversas facetas y revela un gran conocimiento del corazón humano. Bajo el título de Calidoscopio reunio Stefan Zweig una serie de narraciones cortas, algunas de las cuales se han editado en volumenes separados. En las novelas y cuentos recogidos en Calidoscopio , el interes galopante de la narracion impide al lector dejar de de leer hasta el final de la narracion. Zweig es un narrador insuperable por la intensidad con que marca las situaciones y por la perfeccion con que labra , cual un escultor, a sus personajes. Este libro incluye las siguientes narraciones: Conocimiento casual de un oficio, Leporella, Miedo, Ardiente secreto, Novela veraniega, La institutriz, Buchmendel, El refugiado, La coleccion invisible, Noche fantastica, La calle del claro de luna.

Zweig''s writing is some of the most brilliant of the twentieth century'' IndependentNothing 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.The suave Baron, bored on his holiday in an Austrian mountain resort, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman. When his advances are rejected, he seeks a new way to her heart - by befriending her twelve-year-old son. To the Baron all this is a game, but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy''s life...Burning Secret is a darkly compelling tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella.

Un relato magistal, perfecto en su concepción y de forma, debido a uno de los escritores europeos que vivieron con mayor intensidad el drama de la historia europea del siglo XX, Stefan Zweig.