Amok And Other Stories (2011)
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The events leading to the deaths of the four central characters however, are very different. The narrator of Amok, a doctor in the grip of sexual obsession and guilt, ultimately drowns himself in the Bay of Naples in order to protect the guilty secret of an extra-marital pregnancy followed by a botched back-street abortion. His tragic tale, told to a chance-met shipboard companion, employs Zweig’s favourite device of a central story within a framework narrative, imparting a touch of the Ancient ...Mariner to the doctor’s compulsive monologue, which with its early twentieth-century colonial setting has also dark Conradian complexities.
The suicide of the central character of Leporella, the slow-witted maidservant Crescenz whose absolute devotion to her employer leads her to murder his unloved wife, is the climax of a chilling murder story. Once her services are rejected by the Baron for whom she did anything and everything she could—and who is horrified to discover just what she has done—life leads nowhere but to the water of the Danube Canal in Vienna.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The events leading to the deaths of the four central characters however, are very different. The narrator of Amok, a doctor in the grip of sexual obsession and guilt, ultimately drowns himself in the Bay of Naples in order to protect the guilty secret of an extra-marital pregnancy followed by a botched back-street abortion. His tragic tale, told to a chance-met shipboard companion, employs Zweig’s favourite device of a central story within a framework narrative, imparting a touch of the Ancient ...Mariner to the doctor’s compulsive monologue, which with its early twentieth-century colonial setting has also dark Conradian complexities.
The suicide of the central character of Leporella, the slow-witted maidservant Crescenz whose absolute devotion to her employer leads her to murder his unloved wife, is the climax of a chilling murder story. Once her services are rejected by the Baron for whom she did anything and everything she could—and who is horrified to discover just what she has done—life leads nowhere but to the water of the Danube Canal in Vienna.
What to read after Amok And Other Stories?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Stefan Zweig to read onlineMoreLess
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