Momentos estelares de la Humanidad

by Stefan Zweig

Overview

Napoleón, Goethe, Händel, Tolstoi, el capitán Scott, Dostoyevski y otras figuras que han vivido momentos decisivos de exaltación o de gloria son los protagonistas de estas bellas páginas. Zweig ha elegido en diferentes tiempos y ambientes esos instantes de supremo fulgor, demostrando que 'a veces la historia brilla como las aguas torrenciales siguiendo un curso fatal, o arremolina y arrebata los acontecimientos al capricho desordenado del vientò.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781519586094
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/28/2015
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Stefan Zweig (1881—1942) spent his youth studying philosophy and the history of literature in Vienna and belonged to a pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. In 1934, under National Socialism, Zweig fled Austria for England, where he authored several novels, short stories, and biographies. In 1941 Zweig and his second wife traveled to Brazil, where they both committed suicide. NYRB Classics published his novels Chess Story and Beware of Pity.