by Stefan Zweig · Quaderns Crema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477275855
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Irene Wagner leads a comfortable and carefree life with her husband and two daughters. However, after eight years of marriage, dances, theater, opera, and other social activities seem banal and dull to her. Thus, more out of novelistic fantasy than genuine desire, she begins a relationship with a young pianist. Suddenly, a woman discovers her leaving her lover's apartment, and Irene is forced to give in to terrible blackmail. The terror of being discovered by her husband and the possibility of losing everything she owns, and which she now discovers she loves and needs so much, will plunge her into a chilling nightmare. Written in 1913 and first published almost a decade later, 'Por' is one of Stefan Zweig's most chilling short novels, with an ending as surprising for the protagonist as for the reader.
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.
