Stefan Zweig

Escrito en 1929, "Mendel el de los libros" narra la trágica historia de Jakob Mendel, un librero de viejo, extraño y genial, que se sentó en el café Gluck durante treinta años y asombró con sus habilidades a cuantos estudiosos requirieron sus servicios.

Carta de una desconocida es un retrato duro y descarnado de un amor absoluto, incondicional, secreto y obsesivo no correspondido.

Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of...

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic...

In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from...

Por que a América se chama América? Por que homenagear Américo Vespúcio se não foi ele o primeiro a pisar em solo do Novo Mundo e se tampouco era considerado o grande navegador da ….

Fragment geblieben, begibt sich Stefan Zweig in Montaigne auf die Spuren eines Geistesverwandten, der einst, in ähnlich herausfordernder Lage wie Zweig selbst, seinen eigenen stoischen Umgang fand mit all der Grausamkeit um ihn herum, die Kriege mit sich bringen.