A hot summer in the heights of Tyrol. A narrator, a young woman, a dry and arid August. The atmosphere in which Stefan Zweig's work unfolds is heavy, stifling, summery.
The author corresponds the actions, sensations, reactions, moods, and emotional shifts of various characters with changes in weather conditions, an idea found in both this novella and other works by Zweig.
Thus, in The Woman and the Landscape, the heroes, and primarily the young girl whom the author and narrator encounters, emerge changed after the "bodily," one might say, contact with nature, the symbol of the woman.
The narrator - with his senses in hyper-excitation due to the suffocating heat - perceives nature as a female being flirting with the sky, the embodiment of the male.
The Woman and the Landscape is a novella with an allegorical character that simultaneously exudes sentimentality and lyricism. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Stefan Zweig
- Publisher
- Roes
- Publishers
- Flows
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 65
- Release Date
- 7/2000
- Publication Date
- 2000
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602830970
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