Stephen Zweig (November 28, 1881 February 22, 1942), an Austrian Jewish writer, novelist, poet and playwright, is known as one of the most outstanding novelists in the world.
What are Zweig's representative works
1. Letter from a Strange Woman
Letter from a Strange Woman is a novella written by Austrian writer Zweig, which is one of his representative works.
The work is about a strange woman. At the last moment of her life, she was full of lifelong infatuation and wrote a long, sad and moving letter, revealing her desperate love to a famous writer. With a woman's most painful experience, the novel describes the depth and dedication of love.
In January 1922, after the First World War, Zweig calmly waited for the departure of the various waves of doctrine in the pre war world, recalled the problems of the world yesterday, reflected on his own creation, and began the most important decade of creation.
"Letter from a Strange Woman" is his representative work in the turning point of his thought. This text is a literary expression of the spiritual crisis in the era of change in which Zweig lived, and it is also Zweig's doubt and reflection on his self-centered value after the ebb of romanticism. Zweig also received two letters from "strange women" in his life. It was these two letters that inspired Zweig. Therefore, this book can also be read as Zweig's "autobiography".
2. The Story of Chess
The Story of Chess is a novella published by Austrian novelist Stephen Zweig in 1941.
The story happened on an ocean going ship. The chess match between the chess champion and amateur chess player Dr. B aroused "my" strong interest. By chance, I learned why Dr. B learned chess. The story takes World War II as the real background and is Zweig's last indictment of fascist atrocities.
As Zweig's last novella, The Story of Chess is endowed with profound historical significance of anti fascism. As Zweig's last novel, it can be regarded as Zweig's masterpiece of individual concern, loss of civilization and historical reflection.
The whole work shows Zweig's gloomy tragic spirit. In Zweig's view, the damage it has caused to material civilization and spiritual civilization is irreversible.
3. Three Masters
Three Masters is a book published by the People's Literature Publishing House in May 2005. The author is Stephen Zweig. Based on the principle of "condensation, concentration and accuracy", this book, with intense enthusiasm, uses sharp writing techniques and strong colors to create "a Balzac character, a Dickens image, and a Dostoevsky character".
These three articles are all based on the understanding of the works: they are not introductory, but sublimation, perception and refinement. Because of the high degree of condensation, they can only be the most important things Salzburg thinks personally. Dostoevsky regrets this necessary deficiency in his article. Like Goethe, his weight cannot be included even in the broadest form.
Zweig's classic quotations
1. Love is a matter of one person, while love is a matter of two people. So, I love you, it has nothing to do with you.
2. Everything that sounds to the ear and looks in the book can only be flittered past a person. The human mind can only understand the essence of emotion through personal experience.
3. It is the real sign of extraordinary perseverance to put the impossible into practice.
4. History is like life. Regret cannot make the lost moment come back. It is impossible to redeem the lost one hour.
5. Everyone accommodates me and dotes on me. Everyone treats me well, only you, only you forget me completely, only you, only you never remember me.
6. Everyone is acting in front of the opposite side, but no one deceives anyone.
7. Every new understanding can cheer up young people. Once they are inspired by a certain emotion, they can take it from them endlessly. This is the meaning of youth.
8. Fortune is not always generous even to its favorite pet.
Main achievements of Zweig
1. After 1945, Zweig's works first aroused strong repercussions in the United States and Japan, then in the Soviet Union, but only in German speaking countries seemed to be forgotten.
2. In 1981, on the centennial of Zweig's birth, S Fischer Press of the Federal Republic of Germany republished Zweig's works, including his famous short and medium length stories "A Wonderful Night" and "Emotional Chaos", his biographies "Three Masters" and "Fighting with Demons", and his biographies of historical figures "Joseph Faucher" and "Mary Antonett" As well as his only novel, Love and Sympathy, has been published and reprinted again and again.
3. He seems to have found a new star in the literary world, and Zweig has gained great fame since then. Not only have he republished the famous articles that he had published before his death, but also the posthumous manuscripts that he had never published before have been collated and printed by Krut Beck.
4. People can enjoy Zweig's other two novels, "The Intoxication of Deformation" and "Clarissa", as well as other novellas and short stories that first appeared. The Zweig fever, which started in 1981, has continued unabated.
5. At least, it is not his own fault that he was forgotten. Fifty years ago, at the end of the Second World War, the arrogant "Fuehrer Group" was buried in the rubble and reviled for thousands of years, but Zweig was immortalized in his readers all over the world.
