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Confusion

English · Paperback / Softback

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A young student finds himself drawn ever closer to his passionate and enigmatic English teacher In the autumn of his days, a privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments in his life. He remembers sharing a lodging with a professor and his wife and a close friendship is formed. The professor, however harbours a dark secret which changes both men forever. 'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.' Simon Winchester, Telegraph Confusion is one of his finest and most exemplary works ...a marvellously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires ...a perfect reminder of, or introduction to, Zweig's economy and subtlety as a writer.

About the author

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Summary

A new pocket edition of this tale of intense friendship and suppressed passion from the master of the novella

Product details

Authors Zweig Stefan, Stefan Zweig, Stefan (Author) Zweig
Assisted by Anthea (Translator (GER)) Bell (Translation), Bell Anthea (Translation)
Publisher Pushkin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2017
 
EAN 9781782274506
ISBN 978-1-78227-450-6
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 130 mm x 180 mm x 13 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary

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