by Stefan Zweig · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253060222
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«Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme» is the novel by Stefan Zweig, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (158 pages, in French).
In a boarding house on the French Riviera at the beginning of the 20th century, Mrs Henriette, wife of a guest, runs away with a young man she has only seen for a day. The narrator tries to understand this flight with the help of an English lady who recognises in the fugitive passions she herself believed to be extinguished. A brief and incisive tale about desire and appearances.
Work originally published in German; the present French edition uses the translation by Alzir Hella and Olivier Bournac, revised by Brigitte Vergne-Cain and Gérard Rudent. Number 4340 in the Le Livre de Poche collection.
A read for those seeking classic European fiction with psychological intensity.
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.
