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El misterio de la creación artística: La conferencia en Buenos Aires, perfiles y despedidas
Durante una serie de conferencias que dio en Sudamérica en medio de su exilio, el 29 de octubre de 1940 el escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig se presentó en Buenos Aires ante mil quinientas personas. Dicen que otras mil quinientas quedaron afuera. El ensayo que leyó –y que da el nombre a este libro– es una exploración hacia el proceso que hay detrás del surgimiento de una obra de arte. Tomando la producción de grandes creadores, como Mozart o Poe, Zweig busca los mecanismos para acceder al momento mágico en que lo imperecedero se manifiesta en este mundo a través de las manos de un mortal como cualquier otro.
En la misma línea de esa reflexión, este volumen se completa con perfiles de escritores y artistas que Stefan Zweig publicó a lo largo de su vida, en forma de columnas y discursos fúnebres. Así, para la aventura que emprende en su intento de develar el misterio de la creación artística, se apoya profundizando con agudeza en la vida, obra y muerte –o trascendencia– de Balzac, Dickens, Nietzsche, Teresa Fiodorovna Ries, Lord Byron, Tolstoi, Proust, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Roth, Toscanini, Romain Rolland, Rilke, E.T.A. Hoffman, Freud y Gustav Mahler.
En la misma línea de esa reflexión, este volumen se completa con perfiles de escritores y artistas que Stefan Zweig publicó a lo largo de su vida, en forma de columnas y discursos fúnebres. Así, para la aventura que emprende en su intento de develar el misterio de la creación artística, se apoya profundizando con agudeza en la vida, obra y muerte –o trascendencia– de Balzac, Dickens, Nietzsche, Teresa Fiodorovna Ries, Lord Byron, Tolstoi, Proust, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Roth, Toscanini, Romain Rolland, Rilke, E.T.A. Hoffman, Freud y Gustav Mahler.
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Published June 20, 2024
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Stefan Zweig
2,579 books11.5k 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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July 6, 2026Este hombre consigue rascarme una parte del cerebro que pocos autores logran. Recomiendo leerlo a la vez que El mundo de ayer.
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