Impatience of the Heart
by Stefan Zweig
Publication date Feb 23, 2016
Publisher Penguin Press
Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
Contributor Internet Archive
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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
Impatience of the Heart
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian writer who, at the height of his fame in the 1920s and 305, was one of the most famous authors in the world. Zweig was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family in Vienna, where he attended school and university before continuing his studies in Berlin. A devotee of Hugo von Hoffmanstahl, he had published his first book of poetry by the age of 19. After taking a pacifist stance during the First World War he travelled widely and became an international best-seller with a string of hugely popular novellas, including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. He also developed friendships with great writers, thinkers, musicians and artists of the day, including Romain Rolland, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arturo Toscanini and, perhaps most import-antly, Sigmund Freud, whose philosophy had a great influence on Zweig's work.
Jonathan Katz was born in London in 1950 and educated in London, Munich and at Oxford, where he now teaches at St Anne's and Brasenose Colleges. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College. His previous translations from German include works by Goethe, Theodor Storm and Joseph Roth.
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