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Stefan Zweig – austriacki poeta, prozaik, dramaturg i tłumacz.

Urodził się w Wiedniu, w rodzinie pochodzenia żydowskiego. Jego ojciec był fabrykantem tekstylnym, matka zaś pochodziła z bankierskiej rodziny z Włoch. Studiował filozofię i historię sztuki w swym rodzinnym mieście, gdzie też związał się z ruchem Młodego Wiednia.

W czasie I wojny światowej pracował dla Archiwów Wojskowych w Wiedniu, z misją dla których przebywał w 1915 roku w Galicji. Ostatni rok wojny spędził w Szwajcarii. Doświadczenia wielkiej wojny białych ludzi skłoniły go do napisania antywojennego dramatu pt. Jeremiasz.

Głównym przedmiotem zainteresowania Zweiga jako pisarza była psychologia człowieka. Znajdował się on pod znacznym wpływem pracy Zygmunta Freuda. Ocenia się, że był dobrym znawcą ludzkiej psychiki, co znalazło odzwierciedlenie w jego twórczości. Wyraźne ślady jego pasji życiowej noszą m.in. liczne opowiadania .

Zweig z powodzeniem pisał też zbeletryzowane biografie. Najsłynniejszą z nich jest Maria Stuart, inna traktuje o Marii Antoninie.

Zweig był bardzo popularny jako pisarz w latach 20. i 30. XX wieku. Po jego śmierci zainteresowanie jego twórczością systematycznie spadało, choć nadal jest dość znany. We Francji pozostaje jednym z najczęściej czytanych autorów obcojęzycznych. W Polsce ukazały się m.in.: zbiór jego opowiadań , powieść Niecierpliwość serca oraz wspomniane już biografie – Marii Stuart i Marii Antoniny, a także Magellana. W 2012 r. nakładem Wydawnictwa W.A.B. ukazała się kolejna powieść pisarza Dziewczyna z poczty.

Zweig był przeciwnikiem faszyzmu i pacyfistą. W obliczu wojny wyemigrował w 1934 roku z Austrii. Następnie mieszkał w Wielkiej Brytanii, USA, a od roku 1941 w Brazylii, gdzie rok później popełnił wraz z żoną samobójstwo .

✵ 28. Listopad 1881 – 23. Luty 1942
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Stefan Zweig słynne cytaty

„Kto raz znalazł sam siebie, nie może już nic stracić na tym świecie. A kto raz zrozumiał człowieka w sobie – zrozumie wszystkich ludzi.”

Stefan Zweig książka Phantastische Nacht

Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden hat, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren. Und wer einmal den Menschen in sich begriffen, der begreift alle Menschen. (niem.)
Źródło: Phantastische Nacht: Erzählungen, wyd. S. Fischer, 1982, s. 243.

„Zamierzam opowiadać nie tyle o swoich własnych losach, ile o losach całego pokolenia współczesnej mi generacji, tak obarczonej brzemieniem historycznych przeznaczeń jak mało która w dziejach świata… O jedno tylko pierwszeństwo mógłbym się ubiegać: jako Austriak, jako Żyd, jako pisarz, jako humanista i pacyfista byłem zawsze tam, gdzie wstrząsy wywoływały najgroźniejsze skutki.”

Stefan Zweig

Źródło: Europa, XX wiek http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14910, rubryka Wśród książek, „Życie Literackie” nr 12, 23 marca 1958, s. 10.

„Młodym mężczyzną jest ten, kogo kobieta może uszczęśliwić lub unieszczęśliwić. Dojrzałym, kogo już nie może uszczęśliwić. Starym, kogo już nie może ani uszczęśliwić, ani unieszczęśliwić.”

Stefan Zweig

„Nieszczęście właściwie nie zmienia charakteru i nie stwarza w nim nowych rysów, ale uwypukla jjedynie predyspozycje z dawna w nim istniejące.”

Stefan Zweig

Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie (oprac.), op. cit., s. 353.

„Jakże często ludzie najbardziej do siebie podobni stają się najzacieklejszymi nieprzyjaciółmi!”

Stefan Zweig

Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie (oprac.), op. cit., s. 353.

„Gdy chodzi o modę, kobiety gotowe są ponieść każdą ofiarę.”

Stefan Zweig

Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie (oprac.), Antyk, Kęty 1993, s. 353.

Stefan Zweig: Cytaty po angielsku

“Most people have very little imagination. They are hardly moved by anything which does not directly touch them, which does not positively hammer its message upon their senses; but even a trifle, should it happen under their very eyes, and within the immediate range of their feelings, will instantly kindle in them a disproportionate amount of passion. We may say that the rarity of their interest is compensated by an inappropriate and exaggerated vehemence when their interest is at last aroused.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

“If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“My father was a schoolmaster in a little North German town, and for the very reason that at home culture was a means of livelihood, I detested learning and literature from childhood onwards. That is nature's way. In pursuance of her mysterious design to safeguard the creative faculty, she is apt to make children scorn their father's bent. She does not want to encourage an easy, effortless acceptance of a heritage, a mere handing down of acquisitions from one generation to the next. She sows the seeds of discord, and will only allow children to follow in their parent's footsteps after they have made laborious but fruitful detours.”

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Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

“Nothing moves young people so much as to witness a sublime and virile gloom. Michelangelo's thinker staring down into the abyss of his own thoughts, Beethoven's poignantly drawn lips; these tragical masks of universal suffering touch the crude emotions of youth far more than Mozart's silver melodies or the crystalline light that radiates from Leonardo's figures. Being itself beauty, youth has no need of transfiguration. In the superabundance of its vital forces, it is allured by the tragical, and in its inexperience, is prone to accept the embraces of melancholy. That, too, is why youth is always ready for danger, and ever willing to extend a brotherly hand towards mental pain.”

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Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“To the young, what can be more disturbing, what more unsettling and tantalizing, than the play of vague suspicions? The fancy, ceasing to wander in the void, concentrates upon a definite aim, and luxuriates in the febrile pleasures of the chase.”

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Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

“He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. We must approach knowledge from the inside; inspired by passion.”

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Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

“The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Someone who's on top of the world isn't much of an observer: happy people are poor psychologists. But someone who's troubled about something is on the alert. The perceived threat sharpens his senses - he takes in more than he usually does.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“Unhappiness makes people vulnerable, incessant suffering unjust. Just as in the relations between a creditor and a debtor there is always an element of the disagreeable that can never be overcome, for the very reason that the one is irrevocably committed to the role of giver and the other to that of receiver, so in a sick person a latent feeling of resentment at every obvious sign of consideration is always ready to burst forth.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“One can run away from anything but oneself.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“Supreme achievement and outstanding capacity are only rendered possible by mental concentration, by a sublime monomania that verges on lunacy.”

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“Nothing makes you madder than wanting to defend yourself against something you can't even get hold of, something the human race is doing to you, but still there's nobody you can grab by the throat.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream — individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization. During the war practically the only courage I ran across was mass courage, the courage that comes of being one of a herd, and anyone who examines this phenomenon more closely will find it to be compounded of some very strange elements: a great deal of vanity, a great deal of fear — yes, fear of staying behind, fear of being sneered at fear of independent action, and fear, above all, of taking up a stand against the mass enthusiasm of one's fellows.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“We live through myriads of seconds, but there is only one second among all these myriads which brings our whole inner world to the boil; the second in which, as Stendhal described, there suddenly takes place a crystallization in the supersaturated blood; a magical second like that of procreation, and, like it, hidden in the warm interior of one's own body, invisible, intangible, impalpable, a unique experience of mystery. No algebra of the soul can calculate it; no alchemy can divine it. Usually, even for ourselves, it remains unsearchable.”

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Stefan Zweig

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

“All office workers are afraid of being late for work.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Was it not the most wonderful thing on earth to be able to help one's fellow-creatures? I now knew that it was the only thing that was worth while.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.”

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Stefan Zweig książka Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”

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Stefan Zweig książka The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

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