Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy
Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for
Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In
1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and
became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife
went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known
works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and Chess (1942), but
his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies,
which were based on psychological interpretation.
Jonathan Katz was born in London in 1950 and educated in London,
Munich and at Oxford, where he is currently a Fellow of Brasenose
College and the University's Public Orator. His previous
translations from German include works by Goethe, Theodor Storm and
Joseph Roth. His translations of Six Stories by Stefan Zweig are
also published by Penguin.
His stories are full of characters poisoned by things left unsaid,
or situations misread... an interior state of mind is beautifully
translated into memorable yet familiar imagery... a ring of
interior psychological veracity.
*The Guardian*
The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating
novel.
*Sunday Telegraph*
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