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| Title | : | The Post-Office Girl |
| Author | : | Stefan Zweig |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 257 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 2008 by NYRB Classics (first published 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. German Literature |
Stefan Zweig
Paperback | Pages: 257 pages Rating: 4.04 | 4572 Users | 538 Reviews
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2009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism. Christine toils in a provincial post office in post–World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine’s rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose. Christine returns to the post office, where yes, nothing will ever be the same again. Christine meets Ferdinand, a bitter war veteran and disappointed architect, who works construction jobs when he can get them. They are drawn to each other, even as they are crushed by a sense of deprivation, of anger and shame. Work, politics, love, sex: everything is impossible for them. Life is meaningless, unless, through one desperate and decisive act, they can secretly remake their world from within. Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig’s haunting and hard-as-nails novel, completed during the 1930s, as he was driven by the Nazis into exile, but left unpublished at the time of his death. The Post-Office Girl, available here for the first time in English, transforms our image of a modern master’s achievement.
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| Original Title: | Rausch der Verwandlung |
| ISBN: | 1590172620 (ISBN13: 9781590172629) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction shortlist (2009), PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Joel Rotenberg (2009) |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 4572 Users | 538 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books The Post-Office Girl
4.5*There is a saying which tells us that what we've never had, we will never miss, which is probably true, but once having experienced the good life, how can anyone return to a boring and mundane existence without a sense of longing for what has been lost....Christine, an impoverished post office worker in a small Austrian town, is to learn that for her, this saying is proved to be heartbreakingly true, because having been given a taste of the pleasures money can buy, and then having thoseHappiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness cant be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and gear are no different.What a beautifully dark and heart-wrenching tale this was! Like other Stefan Zweig novels that i have read even this had a strange impact on me. I felt restless while reading this. Neither i could continue reading nor could I stop. I loved the way how he forces his readers to get involved with his characters and their story even if they dont want to which
When will it be me? When will it be my turn? What have I been dreaming about during these long empty mornings if not about being free someday from this meaningless grind, this deadly race against time? Relaxing for once, having some unbroken time to myself, not always in shreds, in shards so tiny you could cut your finger on them. Life can sometimes seem to be arrested in a state of perpetual halt; the waiting for your chance that never ever comes. Not a moment of respite, not a moment without
She feels borne along, carried by the wind. She was a child the last time she flew like this. This is the beginning of the delirium of transformation.To live again, after experiencing the brutality of war. To lose one's parent, one's home, one's trajectory; to feel mentally crippled after war has stripped one of everything one thought she was or could become, everything one thought about life. To see life anew, after being given a chance. To hope. To dream. To try and be 'normal' again: never
I really liked how I didn't know where this was going for the longest time. Right up until the end, really. Oh, the bitterness! I loved it. So many quotable passages.(view spoiler)[Although how great wouldn't it have been if he'd killed her in the post office upon seeing all that cash, and robbed the place? I really thought that would happen. (hide spoiler)]
You will say... is she crazy to have given two stars to Stefan Zweig? Maybe the only or little more on all GR readers with such a low review? I say immediately... Writing is sublime, it takes your mind and your word.... But only that, i had pity especially for Christines heart, she remained anchored in a life without hope and resilience till the end...That extreme poverty is unimaginable, ... but as the reading went on, everything seemed to be based on one perverse judgment of the other...On the
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