Amok and other Stories

Amok and other Stories by Anthea Bell )

Offers a collection of four stories that analyse emotional dilemmas: a doctor torn between his medical duty and his own mixed emotions; a maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter in love with an aristocratic beauty; and a First World War POW longing to be home again in Russia.

I can't think of a writer who is more successful at depicting amour fou - what one critic describes as "sex and madness breaking through the lacquered screen of upper-bourgeois society"- nowhere more grippingly than in Amok in which a doctor, a Conradesque loner, is tipped into "a sort of human rabies" by an unattainable colonial wife -- Julie Kavanagh The Economist Intelligent Life To read Zweig is to be in the presence of a properly mature writer, for all that his characters are often in the grip of highly inappropriate desires(...) These are unforgettable stories, beautifully translated. Anthea Bell is a first-rate translator; she brings out the humour as well as the anguish that make Zweig's work so sympathetically acute. -- NIcholas Lezard Guardian

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy Viennese Jewish family. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig traveled widely, living in Salzburg, London and New York before settling in Brazil where he and his wife were found dead in 1942.

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ISBN 13	9781901285666
ISBN 10	1901285669
Titel	Amok and other Stories
Autor	Anthea Bell )
Serie	Pushkin Collection
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-02-23
Seitenanzahl	144
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