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Twenty-Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 27 2025
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Stefan Zweig's Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman is one of the strangest and most quietly devastating works of the twentieth century. First published in 1927, it is a novella about confession - about the things we carry in silence for decades, and what finally compels us to speak.
The story begins with a minor scandal at a European resort: a respectable woman has abandoned her husband and children to flee with a man she has known for barely a day. The other guests argue over whether such an act can ever be understood, let alone forgiven. It is this debate that draws out the book's true subject - an elderly Englishwoman, poised and reserved, who takes the narrator aside and tells him something she has never told anyone. Once, in a single afternoon and evening, she too was overtaken by forces she could neither name nor resist.
What follows is Zweig at his most hypnotic. The woman's account centers on a young gambler she encountered in a Monte Carlo casino - a stranger in the grip of ruin - and the inexplicable surge of feeling that bound her to him for those twenty-four hours. Zweig renders the psychology of that experience with extraordinary precision, tracing the fine, almost invisible line between compassion and obsession, between a generous impulse and a catastrophic one.
This is not a story about passion in any conventional sense. It is about the moments that escape our control and then define us anyway - the choices made in a single day that quietly reorganize an entire life. Zweig understood, perhaps better than any writer of his era, how much a person can contain without ever showing it. This new translation aims to honor that understanding, and to return to English readers the full, unsettling intimacy of his prose.
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