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 |
| Title | Amok and other Stories |
| Author | Anthea Bell ) |
| Series | Pushkin Collection |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2007-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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