In these essays, Zweig depicts the tragic and sublime lifelong struggle by three great creative minds with their respective daemons. towards danger, immoderation, ecstasy, renunciation and even self-destruction.” haps too frequent) use of confessional narrative to an impartial listener has been compared to the relationship. Stefan Zweig’s literary portraits of three tormented giants of German literature, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche, contrasts them with Goethe who was anchored in place by profession, home and family.įor Zweig, “everyone whose nature excels the commonplace, everyone whose impulses are creative, wrestles inevitably with his daemon” which Zweig describes as “the incorporation of that tormenting leaven which impels our being. The Struggle with the Daemon Stefan Zweig. The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter 82,000 words) (cover: Susan Erony, Unseeing Eyes/Unspeaking Lips, pencil, burnt paper, paper, acrylic medium on canvas, 44" x 44", 2011) $9.99 on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Home Amphitryon - Ein Lustspiel nach Molire: Antiker Mythos im romantischen Gewandversehen mit Kleists biografischen Aufzeichnungen von Stefan Zweig und R (. /rebates/2fHolderlin-Kleist-and-Nietzsche-The-Struggle-with-the-Daemon2fZweig2fp2fbook2f9781412811354&.
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