The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel Stefan Zweig

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Linked by the theme of obsessive intensity, these novellas explore the nature of desire by showing two lives led in the single-minded pursuit of art and literature, and of existential truth against the background of a corrupt and disintegrating Europe.

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The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig

The Invisible Collection and Buchmundel are two of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas, linked by the theme of obsession. Zweig explores the nature of desire in showing us two lives led in the single-minded pursuit of art and literature, of existential truth against the background of a disintegrating and corrupt Europe.

About Stefan Zweig

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.

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GOR010577493

ISBN 13

9781901285000

ISBN 10

1901285006

Title

The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig

Author

Stefan Zweig

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pushkin Press

Year published

1998-02-21

Number of pages

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins