"I'd rather bear everything alone than let you carry a burden, I want to make myself the only woman you love, let you always grasp love and gratitude to miss her." 」 Anyone who has read Stephen Zweig's novel "Letter from a Strange Woman" must remember this "golden sentence" that frightens men. And November 28, 2021, the 140th anniversary of the birth of this great writer, let's take a little retrospective.
Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was a famous Austrian writer, especially for his novels and biographies. In addition to "Letter from a Strange Woman", which is well known to the vast number of literary and artistic youth, there is also a biography "When the Stars Of Mankind Shine", which is listed as a must-read for middle school students, which tells 12 character stories.
"Letter from a Strange Woman" is, of course, a work that love obsessives and literary and artistic youth like. A crush that pushes too hard, making men love and fear! In 2005, Chinese actress Xu Jinglei adapted from this novel and directed and starred in a film version of "Letter from a Strange Woman".
The novel probably tells the story of a writer who spends his heart and is wandering around, and one day receives a letter from a strange woman. From the letter, it appears that when the woman was a child, she was a neighbor of the writer. She had a crazy crush on this writer. This feeling has always remained in her heart. When she grew up, she had a brief passion with writers because of a chance. Of course, the writer did not recognize her, and habitually turned around and forgot about her.
The woman was deeply in love with the writer and quietly gave birth to a child with him. Time passed, they reunited years later, and after some passion, the writer still did not recognize her, and then forgot her again.
Later, the woman's child died of illness, and she, before dying, wrote a long letter to the writer...
What exactly is this story trying to convey? Different readers certainly have different feelings. For example, some people think that they feel "immortal love", and some people say that they feel a cool "I love you but have nothing to do with you". And some people, I am afraid, feel a kind of fear of being crushed.
The best love, obviously, is not this lifelong crush, but full of sunshine and interaction. One-way love, if it is only a moderate crush, is wonderful, but if you fight all your life to pounce on it, it is a bit scary. Think about it, for decades of life, there has been someone who has been staring at you in the dark and even giving birth to your child. Then when you die, you suddenly come to tell you: I love you, you never knew me...
Of course, it is wrong to treat love as a game, but it is also an elegance to love in the sun, and it is easy to say that it is easy to say that it is scattered. Excessively self-centered crushes are always terrible emotional states. On the surface, he said" "I love you but it has nothing to do with you", but in the end he put the cruelest side in front of him, and there is no room for redemption. How could it not have anything to do with him?
Zweig's novels are basically based on the theme of "emotion, passion - lust, women", and many stories show people's broken lives, mutated love, which is thought-provoking.
Zweig himself was married twice, the first of which was the writer Friedrich Von Wendenitz, and by the time they were married, Windeitz already had two children. The second, Luti Altmann, was an exiled Jewish girl who was introduced by Wendenitz to Zweig as a secretary. After knowing Luti for four years, Zweig and Wendenitz peacefully broke up, and another year later, they married Luti.
But in 1942, after completing his autobiography Yesterday's World, Zweig embraced him in his apartment on February 22 with his Luti altman (33 years old) and committed suicide by poisoning.
It is generally believed that because fascism was rampant at the time, Zweig was desperate to witness the sinking of his "spiritual homeland of Europe". After Hitler came to power in 1933, Zweig moved to Britain the following year, where he went into exile in Britain, Brazil, and the United States, and became a British citizen in 1938. The Zweigs committed suicide while living in exile in the small town of Petropolis, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.