Letter from an Unknown Woman

For the 1948 film, see Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film). For the 2004 film, see Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004 film).

The first publication of Der Brief einer Unbekannten in the Neuen Freien Presse

Letter from an Unknown Woman (German: Der Brief einer Unbekannten, sometimes appearing without the definite article "der") is a novella by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The work first appeared in the 1 January 1922 issue of the Viennese Neuen Freien Presse,[1] before being published in book form as part of the collection Amok: Novellen einer Leidenschaft (Insel Verlag, 1922).[2] The novella tells the story of an author who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story.[3] It is generally considered to be Zweig's most famous work of fiction.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Larcati, Arturo; Renoldner, Klemens; Wörgötter, Martina (2018). Stefan-Zweig-Handbuch (in German). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. pp. xii, 198–200. ISBN 9783110303889.
  2. ^ Klawiter, Randolph J. (1965). Stefan Zweig: A Bibliography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 6, 14.
  3. ^ Zweig, Stefan (2013-01-29). Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories. Steerforth Press. ISBN 978-1-78227-009-6.
  4. ^ Gilbert, Peter (1982). "The World of Yesterday". The Jewish Quarterly. 30 (1–2): 59.
  5. ^ Poupard, Dennis, ed. (1985). Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Excerpts of Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died Between 1900 and 1960. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research. pp. 429, 454. ISBN 0810302314.
  6. ^ Seinfelt, Mark (1999). Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors. Prometheus Books. p. 165. ISBN 9781615926640.