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    Amok and Other Stories

    By Stefan Zweig

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    A DOCTOR IN the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Press
    Release dateFeb 23, 2007
    ISBN9781906548544
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    Stefan Zweig

    Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, dessen Werke für ihre psychologische Raffinesse, emotionale Tiefe und stilistische Brillanz bekannt sind. Er wurde 1881 in Wien in eine jüdische Familie geboren. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er in einem intellektuellen Umfeld, das seine spätere Karriere als Schriftsteller prägte. Zweig zeigte früh eine Begabung für Literatur und begann zu schreiben. Nach seinem Studium der Philosophie, Germanistik und Romanistik an der Universität Wien begann er seine Karriere als Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er reiste durch Europa und pflegte Kontakte zu prominenten zeitgenössischen Schriftstellern und Intellektuellen wie Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann und James Joyce. Zweigs literarisches Schaffen umfasst Romane, Novellen, Essays, Dramen und Biografien. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören "Die Welt von Gestern", eine autobiografische Darstellung seiner eigenen Lebensgeschichte und der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, sowie die "Schachnovelle", die die psychologischen Abgründe des menschlichen Geistes beschreibt. Mit dem Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland wurde Zweig aufgrund seiner Herkunft und seiner liberalen Ansichten zunehmend zur Zielscheibe der Nazis. Er verließ Österreich im Jahr 1934 und lebte in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern, bevor er schließlich ins Exil nach Brasilien emigrierte. Trotz seines Erfolgs und seiner weltweiten Anerkennung litt Zweig unter dem Verlust seiner Heimat und der Zerstörung der europäischen Kultur. 1942 nahm er sich gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Lotte das Leben in Petrópolis, Brasilien. Zweigs literarisches Erbe lebt weiter und sein Werk wird auch heute noch von Lesern auf der ganzen Welt geschätzt und bewundert.

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    • 4/5
      Amok and Other Stories (1922) consists of the novella "Amok", along with three short stories that were originally published alongside it, "The Star Above the Forest", "Leporella" and "Incident on Lake Geneva".The nameless narrator of "Amok" is a passenger on an ocean liner traveling from Calcutta to Europe just before the Great War, who encounters a man who is in hiding from the other passengers. He is agitated and emotionally fragile but civil to the narrator. On a second visit, the narrator looks for this mysterious stranger, who has a story that he needs to get off of his chest. He is a German trained physician who accepted a position with the Dutch government to serve as a doctor in the colonies, after his medical career was derailed by personal scandal. He sets up his practice in a district station, far away from the nearest town, which suits his desire for solitude from other colonists. He seeks pleasure from "yellow-skinned womean and my good whisky", but he desires to return to Europe, with its desirable women.One day a mysterious, haughty and beautiful European woman drives to the district station to visit him. She attempts to make idle conversation with the doctor, who soon realizes that she is hiding a secret, and needs his urgent assistance. He desires her physically, but is repulsed by her condescending manner, and he only agrees to help her if she agrees to do something for him in return. She refuses his proposal, and returns to town. Almost immediately, the doctor is struck with regret, and becomes obsessed with the woman, following her back to her house, and seeking her out in the town. Faced with a desperate need to remedy her condition, the woman seeks help from a native medical practitioner, to the shock and horror of the doctor, who attempts to treat her before a tragedy ensues.The short stories are good, but do not have the gripping emotional power of "Amok", which is a fantatsic novella. I would give five stars to "Amok", and four stars to this book as a whole.
    • 5/5
      Stunning prose, tragic tales of passion, despair, and suicide........perfect literature! These short stories are individual gems set in one collection. I have rarely read such powerful prose.....really!
    • 5/5
      Four short stories, elegiac in nature, linked by despair and suicide. Anthea Bell's translation flows well and it's easy to forget she is translating from German.Amok - A disgraced doctor becomes obsessed with a beautiful patient and stops at nothing to protect her dignity.Leporella - A simple servant, unwaveringly committed, takes extreme steps to satisfy her master.Star Above the Forest - A waiter falls in love with a resident at his hotel and becomes distressed when she must leave.Incident on Lake Geneva - A simple-minded Russian soldier from the First World War flees homewards from France and becomes depressed when, distant from his family, he finds no solace in his newfound company.The protagonist of each story dies for some form of love or loss. Amok stands out for its characterization of the doctor, an intelligent and skilled man whose mind is overcome with obsession and then guilt. The fact Zweig, an Austrian Jew, committed suicide with his wife when all seemed lost in the Second World War adds poignancy to the final story.