Confusion : the private papers of privy councillor R. von D. / Stefan Zweig ; introduction by George Prochnik ; translated by Anthea Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942

Contributor:

Bell, Anthea

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Verwirrung der gefühle. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical memory--Fiction.

Autobiographical memory.

College teachers--Germany--Fiction.

College teachers.

College students--Germany--Fiction.

College students.

Adultery--Germany--Fiction.

Adultery.

Male homosexuality--Germany--Fiction.

Male homosexuality.

German fiction--Translations into English.

Emotional maturity--Fiction.

Germany.

Genre:

German fiction

Fiction.

German fiction.

Physical Description:

xix, 153 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, ©2012.

Summary:

"A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning--as well as a peculiarly intense fascination with the graying professor who gave the talk. The student grows close to the professor, becoming a regular visitor to the apartment he shares with his much younger wife. He takes it upon himself to urge his teacher to finish the great work for scholarship that he has been laboring at for years and even offers to help him in any way he can. The professor welcomes the young man's attentions, at least on some days. On other, he rages without apparent reason or turns away from his disciple with cold scorn. The young man is baffled, wounded. He cannot understand. But his wife understands. She understands perfectly. And one way or another she will help him to understand too."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781590173671

1590173678

9781590174999

1590174992

OCLC:

744286001

Publisher Number:

90102466666