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An NYRB Classics Original

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 ...
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Confusion

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Overview

An NYRB Classics Original

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, be­coming 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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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590176610
  • Publisher: New York Review Books
  • Publication date: 7/25/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 811,043
  • File size: 210 KB

Meet the Author

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), novelist, biographer, poet, and translator, was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. During the 1930s, he was one of the best-selling writers in Europe, and was among the most translated German-language writers before the Second World War. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg to London (taking British citizenship), to New York, and finally to Brazil, where he committed suicide with his wife. New York Review Books has published Zweig’s novels The Post-Office Girl and Beware of Pity as well as the novella Chess Story.

George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam & The Purpose of American Psychology. His most recent essays have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Cabinet magazine. His new book, In Pursuit of Silence – Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, was published by Doubleday on April 6, 2010.

Anthea Bell is the recipient of the 2009 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Stefan Zweig’s Burning Secret. In 2002 she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.
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    Posted June 14, 2013

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    Posted June 14, 2013

    PaRker to trevor

    Go to party res six

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 14, 2013

    Yeah sure

    W h o r e. You are probably still trevor. Just not in th book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 14, 2013

    Hidy

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    Posted April 1, 2013

    To all below

    Stop pretending to be cats what the heck! Stop it its annoying everybody!

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    Posted August 18, 2012

    Redfern

    *goes there*

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    Posted August 18, 2012

    Everforest

    Umm...she though Oh! At lost result three.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2012

    Whitefoot

    *she pads in uncertainly and sats down, her whole body trembling. The thought of her as leader of Horseclan made her shudder.* 'Me... as leader? No. Lilystar's legacy is too great to take on. I can't do it!' *with an angry sob, she runs away again, to 'lost' first result* ~Depressed Whitefoot

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