Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (Book Analysis) E-Book

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig, which tells the story of an elderly lady, Mrs C., who is reminded of her past when another woman at her hotel runs away with a man. Mrs C. decides that she wants to share her own story of the twenty-four hours she spent in the company of a thrilling young man who changed her life forever. Zweig was, during his time, the most translated author in the world and another of his works was featured in Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century. 

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Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer, playwright, journalist and biographer

Born in Vienna in 1881Died in Brazil in 1942Notable works:Confusion (1926), novellaTwenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1934), novellaThe Royal Game (1941), novella

Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna, Austria in 1881 to a bourgeois Jewish family. From an early age he was passionate about anything to do with art, poetry, literature and theatre. He developed his strong humanist thinking and fondness for European culture throughout his studies and travels around the world. He rubbed shoulders with great writers of the times such as Rilke, Émile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland and Jules Romain. He was both passionate and extremely sensitive and was traumatised by the two world wars. In 1933, his books were publicly burned in Munich. He committed suicide in Brazil in 1942, having fled Europe several years previously.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Confessions of an aging lady

Genre: novellaReference edition: Zweig, S. (2011) Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme. Trans. Bournac, O. and Hella, A. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.1First edition: 1934Themes: passion, gambling, suicide, secrets and confessions

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman first appeared in 1934 and was inspired by an epistolary novel by Constance de Salme - Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Sensitive Woman (1824). Zweig’s novella tells the story of a quiet guest house on the French Riviera which is suddenly disturbed by a respectable young woman’s disappearance. She is one of the hotel’s clients and has run away with a man who is not her husband. This event reminds an elderly lady of a day in her life twenty years previously, which she spent in the company of a thrilling young man who had changed her life forever. She recounts exactly what happened during these fateful twenty-four hours to the narrator.

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