Journey into the Past
β Scribed by Zweig, Stefan
- Book ID
- 107215728
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A deep study of the unhappy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, here for the first time in America, is a previously unpublished novella that was found among Zweigβ²s stories after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everythingΠ ΠΠ βΠ²ΠΡtime, war, betrayalΠ ΠΠ βΠ²ΠΡcan last, Zweig tells the story of Louis, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and indeed the couple vow to live together, but then Louis is sent to Mexico on business and, while he is away, the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic shut down, Louis makes a new life in Mexico. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his former beloved a widow and their feelings, though altered, no less engaged. Is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?
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