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Confusion (New York Review Books Classics) by Zweig, Stefan
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- Condition
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- ISBN
- 9781590174999
- Book Title
- Confusion
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, General, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 4.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion , a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form. A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning--as well as a peculiarly intense fascination with the graying professor who gave the talk. The student grows close to the professor, be-coming a regular visitor to the apartment he shares with his much younger wife. He takes it upon himself to urge his teacher to finish the great work of scholarship that he has been laboring at for years and even offers to help him in any way he can. The professor welcomes the young man's attentions, at least on some days. On others, he rages without apparent reason or turns away from his disciple with cold scorn. The young man is baffled, wounded. He cannot understand. But the wife understands. She understands perfectly. And one way or another she will help him to understand too.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590174992
ISBN-13
9781590174999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Confusion
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
4.5in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
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“ Confusion is one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously 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.� -Robert Macfarlane, The Times Literary Supplement "Passion and dedication . . . Outside the works of Plato, I don't think I have ever read a better or more honest account of what ill always remain at the heart of teaching" -Gabriel Josipovici, The Jewish Chronicle "Confusion, which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. An elderly academic looks back on the most intense and formative relationship of his life." -Harry Eyres , Financial Times" "A brilliant writer." - The New York Times "In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature" -Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times "Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov" -Paul Bailey "One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society" -Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The secret superstar" -Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life ( The Economist ) "My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books" -Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph "Admired by readers as diverse as Freud, Einstein, Toscanini, Thomas Mann and Herman Goering." - The New York Times, " Confusion is one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously 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." -Robert Macfarlane, The Times Literary Supplement "Passion and dedication . . . Outside the works of Plato, I don't think I have ever read a better or more honest account of what ill always remain at the heart of teaching" -Gabriel Josipovici, The Jewish Chronicle "Confusion, which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. An elderly academic looks back on the most intense and formative relationship of his life." -Harry Eyres , Financial Times" "A brilliant writer." - The New York Times "In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature" -Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times "Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov" -Paul Bailey "One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society" -Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The secret superstar" -Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life ( The Economist ) "My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books" -Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph "Admired by readers as diverse as Freud, Einstein, Toscanini, Thomas Mann and Herman Goering." - The New York Times , " Confusion is one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously 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." -Robert Macfarlane, The Times Literary Supplement "Passion and dedication . . . Outside the works of Plato, I don't think I have ever read a better or more honest account of what ill always remain at the heart of teaching" -Gabriel Josipovici, The Jewish Chronicle "Confusion, which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. An elderly academic looks back on the most intense and formative relationship of his life." -Harry Eyres , Financial Times "A brilliant writer." - The New York Times "In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature" -Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times "Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov" -Paul Bailey "One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society" -Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The secret superstar" -Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life ( The Economist ) "My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books" -Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph "Admired by readers as diverse as Freud, Einstein, Toscanini, Thomas Mann and Herman Goering." - The New York Times , " Confusion is one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously 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." --Robert Macfarlane, The Times Literary Supplement "Passion and dedication . . . Outside the works of Plato, I don't think I have ever read a better or more honest account of what ill always remain at the heart of teaching" --Gabriel Josipovici, The Jewish Chronicle "Confusion, which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. An elderly academic looks back on the most intense and formative relationship of his life." --Harry Eyres , Financial Times "A brilliant writer." -- The New York Times "In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature" --Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times "Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov" --Paul Bailey "One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society" --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The secret superstar" --Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life ( The Economist ) "My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books" --Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph "Admired by readers as diverse as Freud, Einstein, Toscanini, Thomas Mann and Herman Goering." -- The New York Times
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