A masterly story, perfect in its conception and its form, the work of one of the European writers who lived with more intensity the drama of European history of the 20th century. Stefan Zweig (Vienna, 1881 - Petrópolis, 1942), author of an extensive narrative and essayist work, was one of the most popular writers of the 20th century and his work has been translated into many languages. Of an admirable skill and finesse in the description of feelings and psychological states, their novels, like their biographies, fascinate the reader. Stirred in life, as a Jewish and pacifist intellectual, he was exiled from his country in the face of the danger posed by the rise of Nazism and was established successively in Britain, the United States and Brazil, where , in 1942, desperate to what he saw as the destruction of his beloved Europe, he took his life. The invisible collection is a brief for...read more