Carta de una desconocida y Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer

by Stefan Zweig, Alfredo García (Translator)

134 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 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.

Reviews

[Magdalena]

Lo que más disfruto de su escritura es la manera en la que te transporta de inmediato a otra época y te sumerge en distintas perspectivas. Las súper recomiendo, sobre todo porque son novelas breves : ideales para leer en una tarde, un sábado a la mañana al solcito, o para llevar a una escapada de fin de semana a la costa.

Me encanta Zweig porque tiene una sensibilidad única para describir pasiones, emociones y sensaciones humanas de una manera extraordinaria. Siento que este tipo de literatura nos eleva y alimenta el alma.

[Yaiza Portero]

4⭐️ porque estoy in love con “Carta de una desconocida”.
Mucho subrayado.