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Jun 13, 2012 · Confusion – Stefan Zweig. [NYRB Classics; 2012] Confusion, like other Stefan Zweig novellas recently published by the New York Review of Books Classics, is a deceptively simple tale. In prose that is swift and easily readable in one long sitting, Zweig narrates the story of a professor named Roland as he looks back from the other end of a ...
May 24, 2012 · Confusion by Stefan Zweig (Verwirrung der Gefühle, 1927) translated from the Germany by Anthea Bell (2009) NYRB Classics (2012) 153 pp. One of the first books I reviewed for this blog was Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story, also published by NYRB Classics (my review here).
Aug 31, 2015 · Confusion is the perfect book to review for back-to-school since it highlights a rather unusual relationship between a student and teacher. This book was originally published in the German in 1929 and this English translation is done by Anthea Bell.
May 2, 2012 · The sad professor's life and fate is a tad melodramatic, though Zweig's overheated prose is appropriate for this story of just-post-adolescent feverish confusion (and the more resigned confusion of an older man who hasn't managed to come to grips with his own desires and needs).
- Stefan Zweig
- Confusion
- Novella
- 1927 (Eng. 2002, rev. 2009)
Jul 24, 2012 · Confusion is the account of young college student Roland who has become enamored with the intellectual, bewildering, and isolated world of his greatest idol – his college professor. Roland gravitates to the secluded home of his professor – the seclusion prompted by the fear of being unmasked of his secret.
Basically, the goal is to provoke curiosity not confusion. As a rule, providing answers before the reader is invested in the story (ie. starting with an info-dump), undermines the reader's interest in the story, rather than provoking it.
Nov 21, 2015 · Confusion is about a university student who goes from party monster to serious student, becoming obsessed with his charismatic literature teacher – who has a “dark secret”! The two become close as the student helps the teacher write a book on Elizabethan theatre and then… things happen.
