Magellan

by Stefan Zweig

Overview

Die klassische Biographie des ersten Weltumseglers Ferdinand Magellan, portugiesisch Fernão de Magalhães. Wahrscheinlich im portugiesischen Seefahrtsarchiv hatte Magellan eine geheim gehaltene Karte gefunden, die darauf deutete, dass in Südamerika ein paso, eine Durchfahrt zum Pazifischen Ozean existiere. Möglicherweise war das große Mündungsdelta des Río de la Plata als Meerenge missdeutet worden. Er entschied, als erster diesen Weg westwärts zu nutzen, um die Gewürzinseln (die heutigen Molukken) zu erreichen. Sie waren ein strategisch wichtiger Ausgangspunkt für den lukrativen Gewürzhandel ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783961501571
Publisher:	idb
Publication date:	11/10/2016
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	257
File size:	5 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.

Editorial Reviews

What did Zweig have that brought him the fanatical devotion of millions of readers, the admiration of Herman Hesse, the invitation to give the eulogy at the funeral of Sigmund Freud? To learn that, we would have to have a biography that illuminated all aspects of his work, that read all of his books, and that challenged, rather than accepted, the apparent modesty of his statements about his life and work.” – Benjamin Moser, Bookforum

Zweig’s readability made him one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century all over the world, with translations into thirty languages. His lives of Mary Stuart and Marie Antoinette were international bestsellers." - Julie Kavanagh, The Economist Intelligent Life

'Zweig’s accumulated historical and cultural studies, whether in essay or monograph form, remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in... Full-sized books on Marie-Antoinette, Mary Stuart, and Magellan were international best sellers." - Clive James, Cultural Amnesia

'Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated aspirations of the men and women he analysed with such affection and understanding." - Paul Bailey, Times Literary Supplement

"To read Zweig is to be in the presence of a properly mature writer, for all that his characters are often in the grip of highly inappropriate desires. (...) These are unforgettable stories, beautifully translated. Anthea Bell is a first-rate translator; she brings out the humour as well as the anguish that make Zweig's work so sympathetically acute." – Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

"Touching and delightful. Those adjectives are not meant as faint praise. Zweig may be especially appealing now because rather than being a progenitor of big ideas, he was a serious entertainer, and an ardent and careful observer of habits, foibles, passions and mistakes." — A.O. Scott, The New York Times 

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