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Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
Una anciana dama británica narra el día en el que se enamora de un diplomático polaco en Montecarlo, y explica lo inesperada y fugaz que puede ser la vida, reflexionando sobre el conflicto entre las emociones humanas y la moralidad.
“—¿Usted no encuentra obsceno o despreciable que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que no sabe nada, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted de veras excusar una conducta tan alocada e indecorosa en una mujer que, además, ya no es tan jovencita, y que al menos por el honor de sus hijas hubiera debido cuidar su dignidad?”
“—¿Usted no encuentra obsceno o despreciable que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que no sabe nada, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted de veras excusar una conducta tan alocada e indecorosa en una mujer que, además, ya no es tan jovencita, y que al menos por el honor de sus hijas hubiera debido cuidar su dignidad?”
112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 14, 2025
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Stefan Zweig
2,297 books10.6k followersStefan 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.
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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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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