The Letter of a Stranger
An author receives a letter from a woman he doesn't even remember. Will he steal glances into her life... or is it something deeper?
Amok
An obsession leads the protagonist to sacrifice everything, and ultimately his own life.
The Moonlit Path
A young German is stranded in a French port, where everything will take a strange turn... (From the book's back cover presentation)
But Stefan Zweig is not one of those authors elevated above mediocrity only by the waves of war and the desperate efforts to resist it. He is the born artist, whose creative activity is independent of war and peace and all external circumstances – one born to create.
The poet, in the sense Goethe gives to the word. He for whom life is the essence of art and art is the gaze that plunges into the heart of life. Dependent on nothing, and alien to nothing: no form of art, no form of life.
Already famous from his teenage years, a essayist, critic, playwright, novelist, he masterfully touched all the strings.
