Letter"s letter

The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig is one of the key figures of the artistic direction, which is commonly called the Vienna Modern and which for two and a half decades at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries turned Vienna into the capital of Europe, which is most attractive to people of art. Like many of his peers, the Tsweig belonged to both new and old Europe at the same time, but his hopes for the new time were destroyed by two world wars. Fleeing from the onset of National Socialism, Zweig emigrated to Brazil, but in 1942 he committed suicide, as he lost the hope of the return of that Europe, which was his historical and literary homeland. Zweig is the author of poems, plays, historical and biographical novels. But the central genre in his work has always remained a short story - laconic stories, saturated with psychological details, paradoxical
Emotional and plot turns. The collection included the most famous short stories of Stefan Cweig: "burning secret", "ammon", "letter of a stranger", "twenty-four hours from a woman’s life", "sunset of one heart", "leporell", "Mendel-Bukinist", "chess-hand novel. "