Published in 1904, the novella "The Love of Erika Ewald" is one of the early works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig and is about an erotic When the young pianist Erika Ewald falls in love with a violin virtuoso, she is not quite sure of her feelings at first. With fatal Tired of the long wait, the violin virtuoso has turned to another woman. Overcome by feelings of revenge, the young woman reacts to this disappointment with a radical plan - her erotic self-destruction. Biography Stefan Zweig was a novelist, dramatist, journalist, and biographer who lived in Austria. During the 1920s and 1930s, when he was at the height of his literary career, he was one of the world's most translated and popular writers. Zweig was born and raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.