Legender

by Stefan Zweig

"Nattesværmere og hastigt vækkede dagdrivere strømmede leende til, og førend solens stråler skinnede på hustegen, løb nyheden allerede som vand fra alle tagrender gennem gaderne, nyheden om, hvilken herlig sejr Helena havde vundet over den vise Sofia, ukyskheden over kyskheden..."

"Legender" indeholder fem fabelagtige noveller af Stefan Zweig.



"Rakel går i rette med gud"

"Den evige broders øjne"

"Den begravede lysestage"

"Legenden om den tredje due"

"De lige - ulige søstre"

“Skønhed, skønhed og kun skønhed. Det er, hvad der møder én i Stefan Zweigs vidunderlige bog LEGENDER. Skøn og menneskelig er legenden om RAKEL, der går i rette med Gud. Vidunderlig er fortællingen om den vandrende syvarmede lysestage. Med fin ironi og dristighed fortælles om de lige-ulige søstre. Og brønddyb er DEN EVIGE BRODERS ØJNE legenden om idealmennesket. LEGENDER er måske Zweigs bedste bog.” - Gunnar Andersen, B.T.

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) var en østrigsk forfatter, dramatiker og journalist. Han voksede op i Wien i et velhavende, jødisk hjem, studerede filosofi og litteraturhistorie og blev som ung forfatter del af de avantgardistiske kredse. I 1920’erne og 30’erne var han en af Europas førende forfattere. Zweig havde, som pacifist, med gru oplevet Første Verdenskrigs rædsler. Da Hitler kom til magten, slog han sig ned i England og rejste derfra videre til USA og Brasilien. I fortvivlelse over Europas fremtidsudsigter begik han og hans hustru selvmord i 1942.

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1951

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.