Günlükler

by Stefan Zweig, İlknur Özdemir (Translator)

German, English

472 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1940

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

[Selin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The diaries give a fascinating personal account of the pre-Great War period, the Great War and the elite, the press during the war, the period in between the two world wars and psychological effects of the exile. I also like the descriptions of cities where Zweig lived and details of daily life of a famous writer in pre war Europe, the way of living etc. The Turkish translation I read wasn't satisfactory, but enjoyed it nonetheless.

[Dolors · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complement íntim al món d'ahir. El dietari de joventut m'ha descobert una cara desconeguda i fresca de l'autor. Els anys de la Primera Guerra Mundial, tot i que el format diari se'm fa una mica pesat, són molt interessants. Però els dietaris entre 1935 a Nova York i 1940 a Anglaterra - breus, menys immediats i amb més reflexions sobre els esdeveniments - m'han resultat molt interessants, diria gairebé imprescindibles.

[Sinan Yuce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stefan Zweig'in hayatının bazı bölümlerinde tuttuğu günlükler. Özellikle birinci ve ikinci dünya savaşları sırasında yazdıkları çok çarpıcı. Bütün o savaş çığırtkanlarına karşı onun gibi bir hümanistin barış mesajları gelecek nesillere umut vermeye devam edecek.

[C. Çevik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dünya Savaşı sırasında bir yazar nasıl duygu ve düşünce karmaşasına kapılır? Bu sorunun cevabı Zweig örnekliğinde, bu kitapta bulunuyor.