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Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig  "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book.  I also read the The Post-Office Girl.  The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well." 

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined.

But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.

Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel.

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The PostOffice Girl New York Review Books Classics Stefan Zweig Joel Rotenberg Books Reviews :

 

Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig  "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book.  I also read the The Post-Office Girl.  The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well." 

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined.

But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom.

Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel.

Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg,The Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics),NYRB Classics,1590172620,FIC019000,Literary,Austria,Classics,FICTION / Coming of Age,FICTION / Literary,FICTION / Psychological,Fiction,Fiction related items,Fiction - General,Fiction-Literary,Fiction/Classics,GENERAL,GERMAN NOVEL AND SHORT STORY,General Adult,United States,Western Europe,classic;literary fiction;drama;coming of age;historical books;classic literature;world history;classic novels;classic books;history books;history;fiction;novels;classics;fiction books;gifts for history buffs;history buff gifts;classics books;history gifts;literature;realistic fiction books;books fiction;history teacher gifts;classic fiction;history lovers gifts;german;20th century;wwii;music;french;russian;war;philosophy;love;romance;russian literature;modernism;chess;espionage;school,german; world history; literary fiction; wwii; classic literature; war; philosophy; music; coming of age; history books; classic books; history; fiction; classics; fiction books; literature; gifts for history buffs; history gifts; history buff gifts; history teacher gifts; history lovers gifts; classic; french; russian literature; russian; chess; love; drama; historical books; classic novels; novels; books fiction; realistic fiction books; classics books; classic fiction; romance; espionage; 20th century; modernism; school

The Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics) (9781590172629) Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg Books

 

Product details Series New York Review Books Classics Paperback 272 pages Publisher NYRB Classics (April 15, 2008) Language English ISBN-10 1590172620

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