Correspondance

by Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler

"Avez-vous encore le temps, l'envie de lire des lettres ?
J'espère que oui ! Avec les lettres, c'est un peu comme une courbe dans la vie, d'abord on les aime, on les oublie, et on les perd à cause de la plus grand force du mot imprimé, mais je crois qu'on y retourne toujours."
Stefan Zweig

Ce livre réunit la correspondance partagée avec les deux auteurs Arthur Schnitzler et Stefan Zweig, de 1907 à 1931.

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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.

Reviews

[Ilana S]

Je crois que le jour où je n'aurais plus aucun écrit de S.Zweig à découvrir, je serais profondément malheureuse..

[Alain]

J'ignorai la relation entre les deux hommes, qui semble pourtant par la période, la nationalité et la préoccupation commune si évidente après la lecture de cette correspondance. Une correspondance qui apporte culturellement et intellectuellement un regard riche sur leur époque.