Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D.

by Stefan Zweig

Book Overview

Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.

A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town. There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for learning--as well as a peculiarly intense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590174992
• ISBN13: 9781590174999
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"