Balzac - Eine Biografie

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»for 30 years i have read it and read it again and again without losing my admiration. « with his »great balzac«, as he himself called him, stefan zweig wanted to draw the sum of his writing experience, biography and criticism in one writing, "leave something valid, a work that lasts a few decades«. In the spring of 1939 he began writing in london; when he moved to the united states in june of the following year, and a little later to brazil, he left behind 600 pages of manuscript, 2000 pages of notes, and 400 painted books.