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Original Title:	Brennendes Geheimnis
ISBN:	1901285855 (ISBN13: 9781901285857)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Anthea Bell (2009)

Burning Secret

Stefan Zweig

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 5584 Users | 635 Reviews

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Title	:	Burning Secret
Author	:	Stefan Zweig
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2008 by Pushkin Press (first published 1913)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. European Literature. German Literature

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A suave baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer to the woman he desires. The initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but has no idea of the burning secret that is driving the affair, and that will soon change his life for ever.

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This was a story that gripped me from the instant I started. Zweig is addicting to read, between his impeccable use of language and structure and the way he explores powerful themes. His stories are like musical compositions-- there is a steady, regular, careful progression of events while the emotions of the characters are volatile, rising and falling dramatically. Burning Secret is a coming of age story, and Zweig perfectly captures the mingled confusion, anger, sadness, happiness, and wisdom

This story follows a young Austrian baron, 'who drew admiring glances with his good clothes and the natural ease of his gait'; a mother, 'one of those rather voluptuous Jewish women just before the age of over-maturity, and obviously passionate, but with enough experience to conceal her temperament behind a facade of elegant melancholy'; and her son, Edgar, 'a shy, awkward, nervous boy of about twelve with fidgety movements and dark, darting eyes'.Although one thinks this story will follow that

This is the third of three beautiful little Pushkin Press editions of Stefan Zweig novellas that I found in the library. It is set in a hotel, a venue that Zweig seems especially fond of, probably because it allows for unexpected encounters. (Now I see how his writing inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel.) In contrast to the previous two novellas, Chess Story and 24 Hours In The Life Of A Woman, this one is not narrated in retrospect by a third party. For most of it, the narrator is a twelve year

A powerful study in human nature. I can only be happy for the praiseworthy resurgence and admiration that many of Zweig's works are seeing lately. His close friendship with Freud has clearly affected his writings, where the main characters are often presented in "case histories", made more intriguing by the subtle observation of the inner workings of the protagonists. Here, the stages through which the young boy's relation with the Baron (and his own mother) passes through (admiration,

I'm somewhat nonplussed at some of the loutish reviews over this story. At least one of them. Maybe the reader has never known loneliness. Maybe he's an insensitive clod. Maybe he yawns over the fact the author took his own life.Whatever the reason he found all the characters contemptible. I found this story moving and at times heart-wrenching.The story centers around a young boy. He's twelve but mature-wise he's much younger, more like a nine year old. Probably that was normal back in a time

The seed of manipulation has been planted in little Edgar and we can guess how this will shape him as an adult.

WONDERFUL review, Sharon! I will get this one.