Stefan Zweig : Amok: Nouvelle psychologique et dramatique (Éditions Novelaris)

by Stefan Zweig

"AMOK" - Une confession nocturne sur un paquebot entre Calcutta et Naples : un médecin des colonies néerlandaises dévoile l'histoire de sa descente dans l'obsession et la folie. Sa rencontre avec une mystérieuse Européenne a déclenché une passion dévorante, un désir impossible qui consume son âme. Dans l'atmosphère étouffante des tropiques, une course effrénée commence, un état d'amok qui emporte tout sur son passage. Chaque page fait monter la tension, crée une proximité troublante avec cette confession intime, cette spirale émotionnelle vertigineuse qui mène inexorablement vers la tragédie.
Cette nouvelle de Stefan Zweig offre une exploration saisissante des abîmes de l'âme humaine, où la raison succombe aux tourments de la passion.

67 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 18, 2025

About the author

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.