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Novelas insólitas (Stefan Zweig na Zahar)
O inusitado, o aparentemente pequeno magistralmente transformado em literatura por Zweig
Considerada freudiana, edipiana, autobiográfica, Segredo ardente foi a primeira obra de ficção de Zweig a apresentar essa espreita pelo inusitado, sua marca registrada. A bela Confusão de sentimentos, uma de suas novelas mais celebradas, trata com naturalidade e forte emoção a relação afetiva entre um aluno e seu mestre. Sempre atento ao aspecto humano, Zweig faz da inflação descontrolada na Alemanha dos anos 1920 o mote e o pano de fundo para a tocante A coleção invisível. Inesperadas também são Júpiter e Foi ele?, novelas-irmãs de finais opostos, protagonizadas por cachorros. Em Xadrez, uma novela, partida organizada como passatempo torna-se um exercício sobre a abdicação como forma de posicionamento político.
Selecionadas por Alberto Dines, jornalista e biógrafo de Zweig, Novelas insólitas conta também com prefácio e textos adicionais, em que ele comenta cada uma das novelas, por vezes em análises pioneiras, e contextualiza sua produção e como foram recebidas.
Considerada freudiana, edipiana, autobiográfica, Segredo ardente foi a primeira obra de ficção de Zweig a apresentar essa espreita pelo inusitado, sua marca registrada. A bela Confusão de sentimentos, uma de suas novelas mais celebradas, trata com naturalidade e forte emoção a relação afetiva entre um aluno e seu mestre. Sempre atento ao aspecto humano, Zweig faz da inflação descontrolada na Alemanha dos anos 1920 o mote e o pano de fundo para a tocante A coleção invisível. Inesperadas também são Júpiter e Foi ele?, novelas-irmãs de finais opostos, protagonizadas por cachorros. Em Xadrez, uma novela, partida organizada como passatempo torna-se um exercício sobre a abdicação como forma de posicionamento político.
Selecionadas por Alberto Dines, jornalista e biógrafo de Zweig, Novelas insólitas conta também com prefácio e textos adicionais, em que ele comenta cada uma das novelas, por vezes em análises pioneiras, e contextualiza sua produção e como foram recebidas.
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338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2015
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About the author
Stefan Zweig
2,251 books10.5k 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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February 24, 2020
Tem uns contos aí que são obras de arte. Eu pessoalmente não tenho muito gosto por contos, ou novelas curtas, e acho sempre difícil achar uma coletânea satisfatória (normalmente são 1 ou 2 bons, e o resto medíocre para, imagino, preencher a edição sem entregar todo o ouro numa volume só). Esta, porém, é predominantemente boa! Só fiquei meio confusa nos dois contos espelhados sobre o cachorro, mas logo que percebi o espelhamento proposital soltei um "uau...." pois nunca tinha visto algo assim. O primeiro é maravilhoso. E o último, com reflexos do nazismo, é psicologicamente muito interessante,
January 1, 2018
A organização desse volume é um pouco menos coerente que as Três novelas femininas. Mas pelo menos duas delas estão entre as melhores coisas que li de Stefan Zweig: Confusão de sentimentos e a melhor de todas, Xadrez, uma novela. Em ambas, personagens tipicamente zweiguianos contam seu segredo, em momentos que nos colocam na posição de analista numa sessão de psicanálise ou mesmo de padre numa confissão católica. As descrições e metáforas de Zweig são das mais delicadas e inteligentes que já li. De novo, os textos de Alberto Dines, biógrafo de Zweig, são curtos, objetivos e ajudam a contextualizar as novelas na obra e na vida do autor.
July 30, 2023
Novelas Insólitas é uma obra literária cativante que me surpreendeu do início ao fim. A trama intrigante e personagens bem desenvolvidos criam uma atmosfera envolvente, mantendo-me ansioso para descobrir o desenrolar dos eventos. A habilidade do autor em entrelaçar diferentes elementos narrativos é admirável, tornando a leitura uma experiência enriquecedora. Recomendo este livro a todos os amantes de histórias únicas e instigantes.
April 25, 2023
Só li Foi ele? por enquanto...
May 27, 2024
As descrições dos pensamentos e sensações dos personagens é incrível. Principalmente no Xadrez, uma novela.
October 1, 2025
Confusão de sentimentos é especialmente incrível.
August 26, 2016
Stefan Zweig is a perfectly rational author, so much so that sometimes his stories seem to be built only with the purpose of expressing his opinion on a specific subject matter. I have seen reviews comparing these short stories with the fables by La Fontaine or Esopus, and indeed that is true: fables have a clear message that push to be conveyed and the plot and the characters are placed in order to make the point.
Zweig has a strong voice, no doubt about it, but sometimes his style sounds undecided--as a man who grew up in the beginning of the twentieth century and lived the two world wars, he hovers between the Modernism lyricism and a vision of the world that is bizarre but not necessarily Expressionist (as it would have been in Elias Canetti, for instance.) My main difficulty with several sections of Zweig's short novels (all of them with interesting, creative plots) was really about the form--Zweig constantly uses a traditional, respectful, circumspect voice that seemed awkward to deal with the conflicts that he wanted to explore--political, economical, and psychological conflicts. All this straightforward attitude leaves, imho, little room to enrich the work with further layers of meaning and emotions, making it all a little flat.
Having said that, Zweig is quite a courageous author, no doubt about it, and "Confusion (of Feelings)" is indeed a strong story with strong characters. It is by far the most complex one among those in the book. "The Invisible Collection" is the most touching one, even though it explores the mundane idea that money loses value under a hyper inflationary environment such as that of Germany during the Weimar Republic. The diptych "Jupiter" and "Did He Do It?" with the opposing destinies of Jupiter and Ponto, is an interesting exercise about tolerance, political leadership and power, but I must say nothing much more than that. "Burning Secret" is the weakest among them all, because it sounded to me as a somewhat failed Bildungsroman. The last sorry is "The Royal Game," which is great on its own right and was the reason why I came to this book in the first place. It has very strong characters and an interesting, interwoven plot (which made me think that Alan Moore had this short story in mind when he wrote V for Vendetta.) And it concludes with a very pungent message, which is totally applicable to our currently messy global geopolitical dis-order. As a social and political essay, it is really grand, however maybe not so much as a short novel.
Zweig has a strong voice, no doubt about it, but sometimes his style sounds undecided--as a man who grew up in the beginning of the twentieth century and lived the two world wars, he hovers between the Modernism lyricism and a vision of the world that is bizarre but not necessarily Expressionist (as it would have been in Elias Canetti, for instance.) My main difficulty with several sections of Zweig's short novels (all of them with interesting, creative plots) was really about the form--Zweig constantly uses a traditional, respectful, circumspect voice that seemed awkward to deal with the conflicts that he wanted to explore--political, economical, and psychological conflicts. All this straightforward attitude leaves, imho, little room to enrich the work with further layers of meaning and emotions, making it all a little flat.
Having said that, Zweig is quite a courageous author, no doubt about it, and "Confusion (of Feelings)" is indeed a strong story with strong characters. It is by far the most complex one among those in the book. "The Invisible Collection" is the most touching one, even though it explores the mundane idea that money loses value under a hyper inflationary environment such as that of Germany during the Weimar Republic. The diptych "Jupiter" and "Did He Do It?" with the opposing destinies of Jupiter and Ponto, is an interesting exercise about tolerance, political leadership and power, but I must say nothing much more than that. "Burning Secret" is the weakest among them all, because it sounded to me as a somewhat failed Bildungsroman. The last sorry is "The Royal Game," which is great on its own right and was the reason why I came to this book in the first place. It has very strong characters and an interesting, interwoven plot (which made me think that Alan Moore had this short story in mind when he wrote V for Vendetta.) And it concludes with a very pungent message, which is totally applicable to our currently messy global geopolitical dis-order. As a social and political essay, it is really grand, however maybe not so much as a short novel.
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