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CONFUSION: THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF PRIVY COUNCILLOR R. VON D PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Stefan Zweig,Anthea Bell,Petra Borner | 160 pages | 02 Mar 2015 | PUSHKIN PRESS | 9781901285222 | English | London, United Kingdom Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. by Stefan Zweig | LibraryThing Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is largely thanks to the impassioned advocacy of a handful of independent publishing houses. Foremost amongst these is Pushkin Press, which has published most of Zweig's work in new translations, the majority of them by award-winning translator Anthea Bell. Zweig enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime and this led some critics to dismiss his works as facile and superficial. His novella Confusion should put such criticism to rest. The premise of the work is admittedly simple - a Privy Councillor who has dedicated his life to academia recalls the aging professor who, in his student days, kindled in him a love for learning. If there is a harkening back to the 19th Century, it is in its rather overblown, melodramatic language — this, however, lends authenticity to the voice of the narrator who is, after all, an academic who has devoted his life to the study of past literature. JosephCamilleri Sep 12, This novella explores the relationship between a young university student and his professor. The student is completely enamored of this professor's ideas and life and the professor quickly adopts him in return. He finds a flat in the same boarding house and starts spending every day with the Professor and his young wife. This novella captures a brief time period, probably only one semester, and is intense and dramatic. I enjoyed this, but sometimes when I read a novel of this length I leave unsatisfied. I feel like there was more that could have been explored here. There's no denying, though, that Zweig's writing is excellent. Assez impressionnant,! Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 19 25, 4. A reluctant and indolent student, he recalls the chance meeting with a professor and his wife, which leads to his sharing their lodgings. In a flash of revelation, the professor un- locks his thirst for knowledge and an ambiguous and close friendship is formed. But the professor harbours a dark secret which changes and scars both men forever. Books Read in German Literature Books Read in 3, No current Talk conversations about this book. In the past couple of decades, Austrian writer Stefan Zweig has gained a new-found readership in the English-speaking world. JosephCamilleri Sep 12, This novella explores the relationship between a young university student and his professor. JosephCamilleri Sep 25, Jhon Apr 25, Pushkin ltd. Works by Stefan Zweig. Categories : German-language novels Austrian novels Novels by Stefan Zweig Novels with gay themes s novel stubs. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Argentine first edition Eden Paul Cedar Paul. This article about a s novel is a stub. Ulukau: The Hawaiian kingdom, vol. 1, , foundation and transformation Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 19 25, 4. A reluctant and indolent student, he recalls the chance meeting with a professor and his wife, which leads to his sharing their lodgings. In a flash of revelation, the professor un- locks his thirst for knowledge and an ambiguous and close friendship is formed. But the professor harbours a dark secret which changes and scars both men forever. Books Read in German Literature Books Read in 3, No current Talk conversations about this book. In the past couple of decades, Austrian writer Stefan Zweig has gained a new-found readership in the English-speaking world. JosephCamilleri Sep 12, This novella explores the relationship between a young university student and his professor. JosephCamilleri Sep 25, Jhon Apr 25, Gerardlionel Apr 1, Status Zweig, Stefan — primary author all editions confirmed Bell, Anthea Translator secondary author some editions confirmed Einar Ness Translator secondary author some editions confirmed. Is contained in Meisternovellen by Stefan Zweig. I capolavori Lettera di una sconosciuta — Il mondo di ieri — Sovvertimento dei sensi — Tramonto di un cuore — Ventiquattr'ore nella vita di una donna by Stefan Zweig. You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. La confusion des sentiments. Notes intimes du professeur R de D. Le Monde's Books of the Century References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English None. In the autumn of his days, a distinguished privy councillor contemplates his past, looking back at the key moments of his life. No library descriptions found. Haiku summary. Add to Your books. Add to wishlist. I had sensed the secrets quite close, its hot breath already on my face, and now it had retreated again, but its shadow, its silent, opaque shadow still murmured in the air, I felt it as a dangerous presence in the house.. While his wife manages the game of secrets with a deft hand, Roland's mentor lives in constant fear of his secret being revealed, especially in a society that keeps the 'perpetrator's' name on a 'certain list'. It isn't right, not a young student and his teacher, do you understand? One must keep one's distance Such restrained passions do not fit comfortably in the conventional form of the period, and must be kept hushed up, closeted, hidden behind closed doors. The relationships between the three feverishly entangle into a discombobulated love triangle. It will soon be cleared up because I'm not letting him play with you and confuse you like that anymore. There must be an end to all this. He must finally learn to control himself. You're too good for his dangerous games. Zweig takes the reader into a turbulence of high-strung emotions, as crossed messages become haphazardly layered one on top the other. He portrays Roland's fiery confusion as a pathogen, taking over the thoughts of one person who spreads its virulent toxins to the other. Nothing however is more arousing and intriguing to a young man than a teasing set of vague suspicions; the imagination usually wandering idly finds its quarry suddenly revealed to it, and is immediately agog with the newly discovered pleasure of the chase. Confusion's plot isn't a contemporary one - outlooks have changed since the period this story was set; and by today's standards, it is basically nothing to be shocked by. For that reason, it wouldn't completely excite the reader. However, it is another wonderful gem from Zweig's observations into human affects and relationships. It may be a bit disorienting and frenzied, but that was the whole purpose. What goes on behind closed doors? View all 4 comments. Said something like oh man that's awesome when I finished owing more to the final half-page chapter than the entire novella but still I'll rate it 4. I can't think of another novella from in which the narrator admits that he's essentially in love with the mind of a male teacher -- and that toward the end so explicitly treats of early s gay life in Berlin, particularly derision, oppression, blackmail, unsavory clandestine spasms in alleys etc. The love triangle among wife of professor, charismatic professor, and hot young passionate student narrator isn't fleshed out enough? Swimming scenes seemed muted, even when a slip of tit made its PG appearance. But the prose soars when it's totally platonic and the professor dictates his long repressed work on Shakespeare to the narrator. Zweig, becoming a great favorite, excels when describing ecstatic intellectual paroxysms. But he's becoming a favorite more so for perfectly phrased insight. View all 9 comments. Dec 19, Jan-Maat added it Shelves: fiction , 20th-century , life-is-too-short. No confusion for me. I think if you live somewhere where legally and socially sexual activity outside of a heterosexual marriage is a thoughtcrime, and particularly if you are unacquainted with cultures with different attitudes, then this story may retain some shock value, otherwise it is a very striking thing, a melodrama lacking in drama, or as I read elsewhere 'suitable for teenagers of all ages'. I fear I can hardly say anything for fear of revealing the entire story. I was not convinced, but reading it as a cri du coeur from Zweig about Zweig it is mildly interesting, the narrator's horror of adultery because of the inevitable revelation of the intimate secrets of the other man sounds so singular to me that I wonder if it is Zweig's own feeling and that this is like the narrator and his inspirational professor a case of hiding in plain sight. View all 6 comments. The two become close as the student helps the teacher write a book on Elizabethan theatre and then… things happen. Confusion is it for me and Stefan Zweig. There are pages and pages of useless blither about the wonders of academia and the life of the mind, none of which convinces as to their merits or entertains in the least.