Confusion
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品牌: Stefan ZweigGeorge ProchnikAnthea Bell
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2012年5月29日)平装:152页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590174992条形码:9781590174999商品重量:367 gASIN:1590174992您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介In Stefan Zweig’sConfusion, a venerable privy councilor approaching the end of his career adds a “secret page” to the public record of his accomplishments, confessing the true story of his youthful initiation into the delights and perils of intense scholarship. After a first semester in Berlin more devoted to amorous adventures with local shop girls than books, he makes a fresh start in a small university town in central Germany where a professor’s brilliant lecturing style sparks a new all-consuming passion for learning and reading. He takes lodgings above the apartment of the professor and his wife and is soon a regular visitor there, dining with them on a daily basis and successfully inspiring the older man to make a fresh attempt to complete his magnum opus. And yet the professor’s enthusiasm for his devoted protégé alternates with cold scorn and sudden dismissals, leaving the perplexed student crippled by feelings of inadequacy and rejection, feelings only the professor’s frustrated young wife seems to understand. But the secret anguish behind the older man’s apparently irrational cruelty will not so easily out. . .
Laying bare the fraught relationship between human instincts and higher callings, physical longing and the desire for knowledge, muddled emotions and the quest for intellectual clarity, Zweig’s intoxicating novella probes the mysteries of the creative process and the limits of sublimation.媒体推荐“Confusionis one of his finest and most exemplary works . . . a marvelously poised account of misunderstood motives, thwarted love, and sublimated desires . . . a perfect reminder of, or introduction to, Zweig’s economy and subtlety as a writer.” —Robert Macfarlane,The Times Literary Supplement
"Passion and dedication . . . Outside the works of Plato, I don't think I have ever read a better or more honest account of what ill always remain at the heart of teaching" —Gabriel Josipovici, The Jewish Chronicle
"Confusion,which I recently devoured at a sitting, is in essence a simple story. An elderly academic looks back on the most intense and formative relationship of his life." —Harry Eyres, Financial Times"
"A brilliant writer." —The New York Times
"In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature" —Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times
"Zweig belongs with three very different masters who each perfected the challenging art of the short story and the novella: Maupassant, Turgenev and Chekhov" —Paul Bailey
"One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work. One gets the impression that he actively preferred to write about women, and about the great moral crises that send shivers down the spines of polite society" —Nicholas Lezard,The Guardian
"The secret superstar" —Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life (The Economist)
"My advice is that you should go out at once and buy his books" —Anthony Daniels,The Sunday Telegraph
"Admired by readers as diverse as Freud, Einstein, Toscanini, Thomas Mann and Herman Goering." —The New York Times
