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For several years I have been a fan of the Pushkin Press's little editions of European classics. Fear, Anthea Bell's version of Stefan Zweig's Angst, is a perfect translation of a near-perfect novella of bourgeois adultery and guilt. --JONATHAN BATE, book of the year 2010, TLS
Brilliant, unusual and haunting enough to ensure that Stefan Zweig s time of oblivion is over for good. Zweig developed a remarkable literary and psychological method ... brought to something like perfection. The story that most clearly exemplifies Zweig's method is Fear ... it s good to have him back. --Salman RUSHDIE
Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov - of whom he was in awe. He was formidably well read, but in his fiction he is as much at ease with the unlettered as the learned. (...) Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding. PAUL BAILEY TLS --- (During his lifetime) arguably the most widely read and translated serious author in the world. JOHN FOWLES -- Charts every fluctuation of its heroine s inner turmoil and ends with an ingenious twist. --JULIE KAVANAGH The Economist
Brilliant, unusual and haunting enough to ensure that Stefan Zweig s time of oblivion is over for good. Zweig developed a remarkable literary and psychological method ... brought to something like perfection. The story that most clearly exemplifies Zweig's method is Fear ... it s good to have him back. --Salman RUSHDIE
Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov - of whom he was in awe. He was formidably well read, but in his fiction he is as much at ease with the unlettered as the learned. (...) Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding. PAUL BAILEY TLS --- (During his lifetime) arguably the most widely read and translated serious author in the world. JOHN FOWLES -- Charts every fluctuation of its heroine s inner turmoil and ends with an ingenious twist. --JULIE KAVANAGH The Economist
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Finding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years of marriage, Irene Wagner brings a little excitement into it by starting an affair with a rising young pianist. Her lover's former mistress begins blackmailing her, threatening to give her secret away to her husband, meanwhile her husband seems to offer her numerous opportunities to confess and be forgiven. Irene is soon in the grip of agonizing fear. Written in the spring of 1913, and first published in 1920, this novella is one of Stefan Zweig's most powerful studies of a woman's mind and emotions.
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Irene, the wife of a prosperous lawyer in imperial Vienna, is a shallow woman who, without much involvement, more out of a sense of adventure than anything else, had an affaire with a young pianist. Leaving him one evening, she is confronted by a coarse and vulgar harridan, who now ruthlessly and repeatedly blackmails Irene. Zweig shows his usual skill in showing a woman's increasingly tormented inner life. Irene cannot bring herself to confess to her husband, largely because, afer eight years of marriage, she knows him so little that she has no idea how he would react: for all she knew, her own life would be utterly destroyed. True, in her panic she gains a new perspective on her past life and on the sufferings of others. But she feels she is hurtling to her doom, and Zweig's prose (again so well translated by Anthea Bell) hurtles along with it. And the outcome? ...
Zweig is a magnificent story teller.
Zweig is a magnificent story teller.
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A Woman in Torment
2 May 2010
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Irene, the wife of a prosperous lawyer in imperial Vienna, is a shallow woman who, without much involvement, more out of a sense of adventure than anything else, had an affaire with a young pianist. Leaving him one evening, she is confronted by a coarse and vulgar harridan, who now ruthlessly and repeatedly blackmails Irene. Zweig shows his usual skill in showing a woman's increasingly tormented inner life. Irene cannot bring herself to confess to her husband, largely because, afer eight years of marriage, she knows him so little that she has no idea how he would react: for all she knew, her own life would be utterly destroyed. True, in her panic she gains a new perspective on her past life and on the sufferings of others. But she feels she is hurtling to her doom, and Zweig's prose (again so well translated by Anthea Bell) hurtles along with it. And the outcome? ...
Zweig is a magnificent story teller.
Zweig is a magnificent story teller.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fear and loathing
23 July 2011
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Stefan Zweig builds tension througout his novella Fear. The story starts with Irene, a well-to-do Austrian housewife, being confronted by a blackmailer after leaving her lover's apartment. The fear that nearly consumes her in the days that follow is interspersed with moments revealing her very ideal family life.
The more I discovered of her life, the less appealing Irene became as a character. But oh, how Zweig made me dislike her - a woman who barely knows her husband and children, who has an affair for the 'adventure' of it, a woman of leisure who can not bring herself to reveal herself to those she should love most.
Zweig is a master with describing his character's innermost feelings and for bringing out strong reactions in the reader to these characters.
The more I discovered of her life, the less appealing Irene became as a character. But oh, how Zweig made me dislike her - a woman who barely knows her husband and children, who has an affair for the 'adventure' of it, a woman of leisure who can not bring herself to reveal herself to those she should love most.
Zweig is a master with describing his character's innermost feelings and for bringing out strong reactions in the reader to these characters.
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