Les tres riches heures de l'humanite by Stefan Zweig

Les tres riches heures de l'humanite by Stefan Zweig

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Les tres riches heures de l'humanite by Stefan Zweig

De meme que l'artiste ne cree pas de facon continue, mais lors de rares moments d'inspiration, l'Histoire, selon Zweig, procede par bonds: une succession de faits banals est interrompue de loin en loin par des evenements cles. Ce sont ces moments d'une grande concentration dramatique, porteurs de destin, ou une decision capitale se condense en un seul jour, une seule heure et souvent une seule minute, que Zweig a voulu illustrer a travers ces douze recits. Il y narre, et commente a sa maniere, des evenements aussi divers que la prise de Byzance, la quete de l'Eldorado, la bataille de Waterloo, l'expedition du capitaine Scott au pole Sud, la pose de la premiere ligne telegraphique sous l'ocean Atlantique, les derniers mois de la vie de Haendel et la genese du Messie, ou la composition de La Marseillaise par Rouget de Lisle.
En 1939 avait paru, sous le titre Les Heures etoilees de l'humanite, une premiere edition du recueil de Stefan Zweig. Aux neuf textes traduits a l'epoque viennent aujourd'hui s'ajouter trois textes inedits en francais, ainsi que la preface originale de l'auteur. Les Tres Riches Heures de l'humanite constituent la premiere edition francaise integrale de Sternstunden der Menschheit.

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), novelist, biographer, poet, and translator, was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. During the 1930s, he was one of the best-selling writers in Europe and was among the most translated German-language writers before the Second World War. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg to London (taking British citizenship), to New York, and finally to Brazil, where he committed suicide with his wife. New York Review Books has published Zweig's novels The Post-Office Girl and Beware of Pity as well as the novellas Chess Story and Journey Into the Past.

Anthea Bell is the recipient of the 2009 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Zweig's Burning Secret. In 2002 she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz.

George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology and In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Playboy, and Cabinet, among other publications.

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ISBN 13 9782253130598
ISBN 10 2253130591
Title Les tres riches heures de l'humanite
Author Stefan Zweig
Series Ldp Litterature Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Le Livre de poche
Year published 2004-02-25
Number of pages 318
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