En Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer, novela publicada en 1927 y ahora en su versión en español por la editorial Lectorum y la traducción de Benito Romero, su autor Stefan Zweig, uno de los escritores más sensibles y agudos del siglo XX, nos sumerge en la confesión íntima de una mujer madura que, en un solo día, se deja arrastrar por una pasión tan intensa como inesperada. Ambientada en la Riviera Francesa, esta breve novela explora con una maestría única el deseo femenino, el juicio social, la soledad y el poder el azar. La protagonista, una viuda inglesa de moral intachable, se encuentra, de pronto, enfrentando sus propias emociones más profundas cuando trata de ayudar a un joven desesperado. Zweig combina el suspenso emocional con un análisis psicológico brillante en una historia que se lee en breve, pero que se queda para siempre. Un clásico imprescindible, elegante y humano, que ha cautivado a generaciones de lectores en todo el mundo. Una joya literaria perfecta para quienes buscan intensidad, belleza y profundidad en cada página.
Author
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942. Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide. Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Zweig's essays include studies of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Drei Meister, 1920; Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche (Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925; Master Builders). He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928; The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. His stories include those in Verwirrung der Gefühle (1925; Conflicts). He also wrote a psychological novel, Ungeduld des Herzens (1938; Beware of Pity), and translated works of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Emile Verhaeren. Most recently, his works provided the inspiration for 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel.
