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Stefan Zweig: Amok. Novellen: Mit den Werken Der Amokläufer, Brief einer Unbekannten, Phantastische Nacht und Die Mondscheingasse

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Ein Arzt, getrieben von Schuld und Leidenschaft, verliert sich im Wahn. Eine namenlose Frau enthüllt in einem letzten Brief ihr Leben voller heimlicher Liebe. Und eine phantastische Nacht verändert alles. Stefan Zweigs Novellen des Bandes "Amok" sind intensive Erzählungen über die Extreme menschlicher Existenz.
Die Sammlung umfasst "Der Amokläufer", die Geschichte eines Arztes in tiefem moralischem Konflikt; "Brief einer Unbekannten", das Zeugnis einer unerwiderten Liebe; die "Phantastische Nacht", in der ein Mann seinem leeren Dasein entkommt; und "Die Mondscheingasse", ein Ort voller Geheimnisse.
In diesen bewegenden Novellen durchleben Zweigs Figuren Momente der Entscheidung, in denen ihre verborgenen Sehnsüchte die sorgsam errichteten Fassaden durchbrechen. Die Werke führen tief in die Psychologie der Figuren und entfalten eine packende Erzählkunst zwischen Leidenschaft, Verlust und Sehnsucht.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 28, 2024

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Stefan Zweig

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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 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.

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