Pismo nepoznate žene

by Stefan Zweig

Pet vanrednih novela najpoznatijeg današnjeg njemačkog pripovjedača Stefana Zweiga. U njima se prikazuju žene i muškarci, koji pate od fiksne ideje, od koje stradaju ili oni sami ili tko iz njihove okoline. Tropsko bjesnilo, koje Malajci nazivlju »amokom«, kao da je zahvatilo čitav ovaj svi­jet. Žena, koja je zanijela s prolaznim ljubavnikom, ne će da se javi ocu svoga djeteta, nego se ubija, kad joj dijete umre; liječnik, negdje u holandskoj Indiji, ne će da riješi bremena ženu, bogatu Engleskinju, koja nosi pod srcem nezakoniti plod — i zbog neizvršavanja svoje »dužnosti« liječnik se baca u more, a muž škrtac, koji svojom škrtošću odbija ženu od sebe i odgoni je među bludnice, ubija nesret­nicu, koja ne će da mu se vrati. I sve tako! Naročito je značajna po­sljednja novela (»Žena i priroda«), u kojoj autor s neuporedivom snagom prikazuje djelovanje omarne i zaparene prirode na buđenje čulnoga života u žilaa netaknute djevice. - Cijela knjiga ističe se svojom istančanom psihologijom kao jedno od najreprezentativnijih djela moderne njemačke književnosti, koje je prevedeno ne samo na sve kulturne evropske jezike, nego i na japanski i kineski.
Nikola Andrić

Pismo nepoznate žene
Amoklija
Ulica mjesečeve svjetlosti
Fantastična noć
Žena i priroda

283 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

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.