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InLibroVeritas
14 oct.6 min de lecture
Stefan Zweig : Heinrich von Kleist's likeness
"His shell was too hard—and this was the tragedy of his existence. He was reserved to excess, and kept everything locked up within himself."
InLibroVeritas
23 sept.10 min de lecture
"Marcel Proust’s Tragic Life Course", by Stefan Zweig
"And, just like Saint-Simon, seemingly a shallow courtier at the king’s court, secretly he becomes the actor and judge of an entire epoch."
InLibroVeritas
20 sept.8 min de lecture
Stendhal : An Ego and the World (Stefan Zweig)
"At first he noticed merely that he was different from the ruck, that he was more delicately poised, more sensitive, more keen-sighted."
InLibroVeritas
18 sept.8 min de lecture
Stendhal : Love of Falsehood and Delight in Truth (Stefan Zweig)
"FEW have lied more arrantly or quizzed the world with greater delight than Stendhal; few have told the truth with more profundity than he."
InLibroVeritas
13 sept.4 min de lecture
L’Uniformisation du Monde (Stefan Zweig, 1925)
Le cinéma, la radio, la danse, tous ces nouveaux moyens de mécanisation de l’humanité, exercent un pouvoir énorme qui ne peut être dépassé.
InLibroVeritas
18 août 20235 min de lecture
Balzac and Stendhal (by Stefan Zweig)
"Balzac realised even from the early volumes the particular quality of Stendhal’s intelligence and his mastery of psychology."
InLibroVeritas
20 mai 20235 min de lecture
Balzac, The Eccentric (by Stefan Zweig)
"No less remarkable than Balzac’s genius as a writer was his lack of aptitude for the role of society lion."
InLibroVeritas
30 mars 20236 min de lecture
A day in Balzac’s working life, by Stefan Zweig
"Let us take a day in Balzac’s working life, a day typical of thousands."
InLibroVeritas
23 févr. 20226 min de lecture
"Paul Verlaine", by Stefan Zweig
"The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths."
InLibroVeritas
16 nov. 20218 min de lecture
Stefan Zweig : La vie de Verhaeren comme oeuvre d'art
"On est quelque peu étonné du contraste apparent qui se révèle chez Verhaeren entre l’art poétique et l’art de la vie."
InLibroVeritas
9 juin 20219 min de lecture
"Nietzsche, Don Juan of the Intellectual World", by Stefan Zweig
"Nietzsche, therefore, never set up house with knowledge so as to economise and preserve; he built no spiritual home over his head."
InLibroVeritas
23 mai 202112 min de lecture
"Nietzsche's Seventh Solitude", by Stefan Zweig
"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."
InLibroVeritas
6 mai 20218 min de lecture
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"The black trees stood around me, rustling, and I loved them. Stars shone down from above, and I breathed in their white salutation."
InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20218 min de lecture
"The Monotonization of the World" (Stefan Zweig, 1925)
"The same book in the hand, the same pen between the fingers, the same conversation on the lips, and the same automobile instead of feet."
InLibroVeritas
18 déc. 20206 min de lecture
Stefan Zweig : L’école au siècle passé
"Nous fûmes tout d’abord deux ou trois seulement à découvrir en nous cet intérêt pour les arts, la musique, la littérature..."
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