See through people's pants
Inside, Twenty-four hours in a woman's life considered one of his most famous and excellent collections of short stories. Consisting of 8 works, the collection shows Zweig's richness in many topics and perspectives.
Covering the collection of stories is a woman's desire to get rid of social prejudices
In this work, he does not stop at any single feature, but spreads and has a very wide coverage of topics, characters, and contexts. For example, although they both wrote about the freedom of women in love, the short story Female tutor and the story of the same name has a different implementation.
In Female tutor, the perspective is placed on two children full of innocence and trust. This shows Zweig's challenge, as he uses many aspects of psychology to transform himself into children. There is innocence in them, but also curiosity and sincerity.
When they saw their mother insulting the teacher, when they saw that she had no way to go… they were angry and wanted to stand up for Ms. Maan. Since then - overnight, the two sisters have reached adulthood, realizing that life is too cruel, and people are too scary. The same is true for another work The secret burns the heart, when showing that Zweig is always challenging and assimilating himself into different, impressive and very detailed perspectives.
Covering the collection of stories, we always see women's desire to get rid of social prejudices. It must have originated from the same period as well as the homeland where Zweig grew up - where Austro-Hungarian society was somewhat patriarchal and full of austerity, that he realized people were not living as they should be. Since then, he has raised many questions, whether a woman following her passion deserves to be judged as a prostitute? And when can a widow fall in love? It is within that line that Zweig gives different "tons of life games", thereby showing a society that still has many repressions.
They are completely dignified people, coming to love with only kindness in the first place. It was Mrs. Henriette who only wanted to save a future plunged into the mire from which love sprang up to envelop her. In just twenty-four hours, a love can be born, and it comes from a keen heart, not the impulsiveness or the impulsiveness one attributes to it.
And if the marriage turns cold, when the lover does not want to be cared for and cared for, is it acceptable to get close to another individual? Zweig does not justify the woman in the story Fear about this situation, through which he tries to find a way into the essence of marriage, to show that it is inherently fragile and needs care from both people. Since then, the lesson of altruism is gently transmitted.
A humanist
Zweig seems to capture the unique condition of each person, he proves that "a woman can, at times in her life, be at the mercy of mystical forces stronger than her will, that her intelligence only conceals the fear of man's own instinct, the fear of man's devil-worshipping nature".
Writer Stefan Zweig
So love is completely normal, it is a pursuit and a desire in each person. Therefore, regardless of gender or class, everyone deserves the love they desire. Zweig as cheering for a spirit of the new age.
Therefore, works like Emotional confusion or Dangerous game showed love from tragedies. And by starting from progress as well as reason, after nearly a century, short stories are still alive and extremely close at this moment, right at this stage. It is no exaggeration to say that Zweig is also a person who sees the future with extremely human instincts.
In addition to being a cheerleader for the spirit of the new age, a prophet or a humanist…, Zweig is also a very inquisitive person. During his life he traveled through many lands, leaving the records in his memoirs The world these days, character portraits The bright stars of mankind… still present as well as alive in each passing day.
Including short stories Mendel, secondhand book seller , and Eternal brother's eyes drawn from his own experience across many cultures. Not only Amok, madness of Malaysia Set right in Asia, the stories above also show a unique color of Asia's mystery, which is easily seen in another collection of stories by Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling about India.
Mendel – whose mind has grown to be great with regard to books, numbers and facts, as well as the blind old man Rackner – who has always been passionate about collecting art… are the jewels and the material that Zweig has admired, pursued and wanted to write about all his life.
They are completely ordinary people, but their contributions are enormous to human culture. It is in this place from an Old World position that Zweig leans down as if to learn from them as well as to see them as gurus to follow. This stems from who he is, as well as the way he has traveled.
It is being born in a somewhat old empire and the pain that both World Wars have brought, that Zweig is a writer, a humanist short story writer with a humble demeanor ... has brought extremely eloquent writings and also pity for those who are too tired.
can speak Twenty-four hours in a woman's life is the typical work of Stefan Zweig's short story art, from which his talent was discovered, persisted and handed down forever.
Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942) was an Austrian writer. He was active in literature in the 1920s and 1930s. During that period, he was one of the most translated and most popular writers in the world. In addition to novels and short stories, he also focused on historical research and produced many impressive works.
