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Journey into the Past

Stefan Zweig

Paperback | Pages: 136 pages

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Original Title:	Widerstand der Wirklichkeit
ISBN:	1590173678 (ISBN13: 9781590173671)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.nyrb.com/collections/stefan-zweig/products/journey-into-the-past?variant=1094930001
Setting:	Germany Mexico

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A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything - time, war, betrayal - can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and the couple vow to live together, but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico, and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic now shut down, Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?

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Title	:	Journey into the Past
Author	:	Stefan Zweig
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 136 pages
Published	:	November 23rd 2010 by NYRB Classics (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Literature. 20th Century

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I watched the excellent film adaptation of this last night and it reminded me how much I loved this novella. Its such a tender and powerful account of enduring love. Ludwig is a young engineer, an orphan, who ingratiates himself with his elderly and ailing employer until he becomes his private secretary and moves into his home. Here he falls in love with his boss young wife. Before anything can happen between them his boss sends him to Mexico. Then World War 1 breaks out. A novel to warm the

Like Chess Story, another flowing, perfectly phrased, psychologically and historically charged, emotionally moving novella by Zwieg, this time about life before, during, and after WWI as Nazi shadows gather. About thwarted desire, great physical distance followed by insurmountable temporal distance, lives interrupted by war, the pleasures of memory over the anxieties of the present, especially when the present involves goose-stepping rows of uniformed men parading through a quiet college town,

I love books that play with memory and time; Zweig is a master in this book at portraying how our memories can create a reality of their own about the past, present and future. The time frame of Journey Into the Past is before, during and after WWI. This is Ludwig's story, that of a smart but impoverished young man, being spotted and groomed by a leading German industrialist (The Councillor) and blossoming into a successful early adulthood. It is also the story of his relationship with The

My second Zweig in two days, reading both this and Chess Story in one sitting. Perhaps I'm becoming Zweig obsessed. Deeply psychological, vastly readable. This novella, along with Chess Game, operated like one giant current or wave sweeping me forward through the narrative. It's not until I crashed onto the shore at the completion of the book that I was are able to pause and take inventory of all I had read. A reading experience that is both easy to process on the level of the personal, or at

The Resurrected Master: The Subtle Fiction of Stefan Zweig, by Paul Bailey--Journey into the PastTranslator's Afterward, by Anthea Bell

If this book doesn't make you want to fall in love or wake those well buried memories of past loves then I refuse to believe you've read it properly.

The introduction gives the complete plot and the story is told retrospectively from the opening scene, so Im not giving a spoiler warning. Set in 1914 right near the outbreak of World War I, a young chemical engineer and his employers wife fall in love. Her elderly husband is disabled and the young man (reluctantly) agreed to move into their fancy home to be her husbands right-hand man. I say reluctantly because he was embarrassed by his poverty when he moved in he spent all his savings on