 First edition (German) | |
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
|---|---|
| Original title | Angst |
| Translator | Anthea Bell |
| Country | Austria |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Reclam |
Publication date | 1925 |
Published in English | 2010 |
| Pages | 75 |
Fear (German : Angst) is a 1925 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was adapted into a 1928 silent film, Angst , directed by Hans Steinhoff, a 1936 film, La Peur , directed by Victor Tourjansky, and a 1954 film, Fear , directed by Roberto Rossellini.
The protagonist, Irene Wagner, is a married, young bourgeois who has a secret affair with a pianist. Due to blackmails from the pianist's girlfriend who is aware of the affair, Irene is seized with fear of losing her dolce vita .
Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian reviewed the book in 2010: "This is the stuff of melodrama: the typical Zweigian scenario in which, beneath the trappings of respectability, storms of carnal passion, guilt, shame and rage. It is no accident, you feel, that Zweig was writing at the same time and in the same city as Sigmund Freud." [1]
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world.
The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before they both committed suicide in February 1942. The book was first published in Stockholm (1942), as Die Welt von Gestern. It was first published in English in April 1943 by Viking Press. In 2011, Plunkett Lake Press reissued it in eBook form. In 2013, the University of Nebraska Press published a translation by the noted British translator Anthea Bell.
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Fear is an emotion that arises from the perception of danger.
Angst is an intense feeling of internal emotional strife.
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Confusion, also known in English under the titles Confusion of Feelings or Episode in the Early Life of Privy Councillor D. is a 1927 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It tells the story of a student and his friendship with a professor. It was originally published in the omnibus volume Conflicts: Three Tales, together with two other Zweig novellas, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman and Untergang eines Herzens. It was included on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list.
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La Peur, also known under the title Vertige d'un soir is a 1936 French film by Russian director Viktor Tourjansky. The film is based on Joseph Kessel's adaptation of the story Fear by Stefan Zweig.
La Peur may refer to:
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe is a 2016 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Maria Schrader. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected. However, it was later chosen as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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