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La Fuite dans l'immortalité

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Qu'est-ce qu'un héros ? Deux textes de Stefan Zweig à redécouvrir, dans la veine du Wagon plombé. Deux textes sur deux explorateurs, deux moments de l’Histoire, deux lieux cruciaux pour aujourd’hui (les océans, les pôles). Le premier, qui donne son titre au livre, raconte la découverte du Pacifique, en septembre 1513, par Vasco Nunez de Balboa (cette « fuite dans l’immortalité » renvoie au fait que Bilboa, sorte de bandit rebelle dont la tête risquait d’être mise à prix, n’avait pas d’autre issue pour s’en sortir que de devenir un héros). Le second, intitulé « La lutte pour le pôle Sud », raconte la dernière et tragique expédition de Robert Falcon Scott en Antarctique, en janvier 1912.

59 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2019

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Stefan Zweig

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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.

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370 reviews2 followers
November 30, 2019
Dans ce livre deux récits véridiques, deux espoirs extrêmes et douloureux. Récits sur le courage fou pour atteindre des contrées inaccessibles. Stefan Zweig partage dans ses mots les émotions fortes vécues par les personnages principaux.
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August 25, 2019
Comme toujours, on est surpris de la modernité du propos de Zweig et de la justesse de son analyse de l'arrogance humaine et de ses conséquences...
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