Twenty-Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman: A New Translation - Softcover

Zweig, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798312377231

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Stefan Zweig's Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is one of the strangest and most quietly devastating works of the twentieth century. First published in 1927, it is a novella about confession — about the things we carry in silence for decades, and what finally compels us to speak.

The story begins with a minor scandal at a European resort: a respectable woman has abandoned her husband and children to flee with a man she has known for barely a day. The other guests argue over whether such an act can ever be understood, let alone forgiven. It is this debate that draws out the book's true subject — an elderly Englishwoman, poised and reserved, who takes the narrator aside and tells him something she has never told anyone. Once, in a single afternoon and evening, she too was overtaken by forces she could neither name nor resist.

What follows is Zweig at his most hypnotic. The woman's account centers on a young gambler she encountered in a Monte Carlo casino — a stranger in the grip of ruin — and the inexplicable surge of feeling that bound her to him for those twenty-four hours. Zweig renders the psychology of that experience with extraordinary precision, tracing the fine, almost invisible line between compassion and obsession, between a generous impulse and a catastrophic one.

This is not a story about passion in any conventional sense. It is about the moments that escape our control and then define us anyway — the choices made in a single day that quietly reorganize an entire life. Zweig understood, perhaps better than any writer of his era, how much a person can contain without ever showing it. This new translation aims to honor that understanding, and to return to English readers the full, unsettling intimacy of his prose.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798312377231
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 98
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