Stefan Zweig

Amok and Other Stories

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A DOCTOR IN the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.
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130 printed pages
Original publication
2007
Publication year
2007
Translator
Anthea Bell
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    And ironically, the first line of Incident on Lake Geneva, giving the date of the story as 1918, makes it clear that perhaps it would not have been so long before the Russian prisoner-of-war was able to make his way home after all.
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    “No,” he said, “they won’t let you through, Boris. People don’t take any notice of the word of Christ any more.”
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    He would throw himself under its wheels, let himself be trampled down by the same violent force that was tearing the woman of his dreams from him.

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