Stefan Zweig (188 1- 1942), a famous Austrian novelist and biographer, was born in a wealthy Jewish family. Since the 1920s, he has "won a wide reputation for his works in German, which is unmatched by English and French works". He is good at using various genres, writing poems, novels, dramas, literary theories and biographies, and also engaged in literary translation, but his works are most famous for biographies and novels.
188 1 year165438+1October 28th, Zweig was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria-Hungary.
He received a good education from an early age and was influenced by the literature and art of the bourgeois upper class. At the age of sixteen, he published a poem in the journal Society in Vienna.
1899 After graduating from high school, he entered the Vienna University to study German and French literature, got in touch with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky's works, and studied and translated the poems of Baudelaire, Wei Erlun and Vaharun.
1900 Go to Berlin to study for one semester. He consciously went deep into the bottom of society and learned about the life experiences and inner world of some despised lower class people.
Yin Xian, a collection of poems written by 190 1 year.
1903 received a doctorate.
1904 Creation of a collection of novels "Erica ewald's Love"
1906 Creation of poetry anthology "Corolla in Early Years"
Before 1907, influenced by impressionism and symbolism prevailing at that time, his works lacked content and originality.
From 1907 to World War I, his creation gradually matured. In addition to Taisiya (1907), A House by the Sea (19 12), Avatar (19 13) and other plays, he also published the first collection of novels.
19 14 World War I broke out, engaged in anti-war work and became a famous pacifist. I published an article "To Foreign Friends" in Berlin Daily (September 19), indicating that I am loyal to their friendship and will work with them to rebuild Europe in the future.
Zweig experienced post-war disasters: famine, cold and inflation; What touched him most was the decline of social morality. The next twenty years were the most prosperous period of his creation, and most of his major works were the products of this period.
I went to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and met Gorky.
1934 was expelled by the Nazis and exiled to Britain.
1938, after Austria was merged into Germany, it became a British citizen and soon left Britain for the United States.
1940 went to Brazil via new york.
1942 On February 23rd, he committed suicide with his wife in loneliness and disillusionment.
Stefan Zweig's masterpiece.
Zweig has great attainments in writing poems, essays, novels, plays and biographies, especially novels and biographies. Representative works are
Novels such as First Experience, Malay Madman, Fear, Feeling Confused, The Turning Point of Men's Fate, Letters from Unknown Women, The Story of Chess, Twenty-four Hours in a Woman's Life, Dangerous Pity, etc.
Biography "Three Masters", "Struggle with Elves", "Three Poets Describing Their Life" and so on.
Zweig is interested in psychology and Freud's theory. Stefan Zweig's brief introduction, his works are good at detailed characterization, and the description of personal experience and spiritual enthusiasm under strange fate.