by Stefan Zweig · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495359926
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«Momentos estelares de la humanidad» is Stefan Zweig's historical essay, published by Acantilado in paperback (312 pages, Spanish).
Stefan Zweig brings together fourteen historical miniatures ranging from the fall of Constantinople (1453) to Lenin's journey to Russia (1917). Among the episodes are the birth of Handel's Messiah, Napoleon's defeat, and Dostoevsky's reprieve. Zweig presents these moments as instants in which a decision or a gesture changed the course of history.
Volume 64 of the El Acantilado collection, translated by Berta Vías Mahou. Work originally published in 1927 as 'Sternstunden der Menschheit'.
For readers of history and literary essay who enjoy short narratives and the prose of Stefan Zweig.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
