A day in the life of a woman

by Stefan Zweig, Arabookverse (Editor)

Overview

This short novel is one of the most important works of Stefan Zweig, which reveals his great talent in expressing the human soul with all the complexity of its structure and contradictions. Therefore, Freud considered it a masterpiece. Maxim Gorky said about it: He had never read a novel as powerful in his life, and his praise of it contributed greatly to Its spread globally, and the spread of the name of its author. Through his novel, Stefan Zweig tried to address several topics that concern humans in general, and women in particular, and through his novel he discusses the issue of a person gambling his life for something. This gamble often ends in disappointment and bitterness. The novel is a secret that a widow kept for more than twenty years, before she revealed it to a young man she trusted. The duration of this secret is twenty-four hours. This woman remained loyal to her husband even after he died, but she slowly became involved, without knowing how it happened?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789779915012
Publisher:	????? ??????? ???????
Publication date:	10/26/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	133
File size:	327 KB
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years
Language:	Arabic

About the Author

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.