Zweig Stefan:
Chess Story
Translator: JoelRotenberg, Introduction by: PeterGay
New York Review Of Books , 2005
Quality paperback, 84 pages
Size: 205x129 mm
ISBN: 9781590171691
ISBN-10: 1590171691
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (1881--1942) Spent His Youth Studying Philosophy And The History Of Literature In Vienna And Belonged To A Pan-European Cultural Circle That Included Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And Richard Strauss. In 1934, Under National Socialism, Zweig Fled Austria For England, Where He Authored Several Novels, Short Stories, And Biographies. In 1941 Zweig And His Second Wife Traveled To Brazil, Where They Both Committed Suicide. Nyrb Classics Published His Novels "Chess Story" And "Beware Of Pity," <Br>Joel Rotenberg Has Produced Nyrb Original Translations For Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story" And Hugo
Peter Gay
About The Author: <Br>Peter Gay, Sterling Professor Of History At Yale University, Is Author Of Weimar Culture; Freud, Jews And Other Germans; Style In History, And, Most Recently, Freud For Historians. He Won A National Book Award For The First Volume Of His Acclaimed Study, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation.<Br>
