Title : Amok - Stefan Zweig - Book

Summary :

Passion in its irresistible and madness-like quality: this is the central theme of these three stories published in 1922 by the great Austrian writer, author of The Chess Player and The Confusion of Feelings .
In Malaysia, the amok is someone who, overcome by a bloodthirsty frenzy, runs ahead, destroying men and things, without anyone being able to do anything to save him. The narrator meets an unfortunate man on a ship who is prey to this mysterious form of madness. Another story of madness, of passion – of mad love, this time – is the Letter from an Unknown Woman received by a successful novelist. But passion can turn a domineering and contemptuous man into a humiliated and ridiculed being: this is the theme of the third of these stories, The Alley in the Moonlight .

• EAN: 9782253057543
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