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Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer

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A principios del siglo XX, en una pensión de la Riviera, una viuda inglesa ya mayor regala a un anónimo oyente austriaco una confesión en su juventud, tuvo un encuentro en un casino de Montecarlo con un joven aristócrata polaco que la llevó a vivir veinticuatro horas de frenesí, a debatirse con las convenciones de la sociedad y a arriesgarlo todo por una pasión pasajera. En esta historia sobre la obsesión y la memoria, Stefan Zweig despliega su prosa envolvente, su fina ironía y su capacidad de análisis psicológico para crear un clásico inolvidable.

106 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 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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May 5, 2026
Una confesión que busca la redención a través de la liberación de un suceso pasado,  pero que afecta en el destino y el equilibrio de una persona que carga con la culpa y la vergüenza de lo vivido.

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La piedra rodará fuera de mi alma y caerá con todo su peso sobre el pasado, impidiendo alzarse otra vez.
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April 14, 2026
«Solo las personas que han vivido completamente ajenas a la pasión experimentan, al verse sumidas en ella, esas explosiones repentinas, esas sacudidas huracanadas, como de avalancha; en aquellos instantes, años enteros de fuerzas latentes se agolparon en mi corazón.»
La manera que tiene Stefan Zweig de plasmar los más hondos sentimientos es cautivadora, y esta novela es un ejemplo de ello.
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564 reviews11 followers
February 18, 2026
It’s always an exciting experience to dive into a Stefan Zweig story. You never know exactly where it’s going to take you. You may begin in one place, but life’s many paths and turns quickly weave a story filled with deeply developed characters, all within a remarkably small number of pages.
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22 reviews2 followers
January 1, 2026
Es el primer libro que leo del autor y no sé cómo expresar lo mucho que me ha gustado, todo lo que me ha transmitido y sobre todo la falta que siento que me hacía leerlo.
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