Confusión de sentimientos: Apuntes personales del consejero privado R. v. D.

Por Stefan Zweig

Roland, un joven estudiante, está a punto de abandonar los estudios cuando su padre decide enviarlo a la universidad de una pequeña ciudad de provincias. Allí, un brillante profesor despierta en él una nueva pasión: el amor al saber. Deslumbrado, el joven se acerca al maestro y le propone ayudarlo a concluir la gran obra de su vida. El profesor acepta el ofrecimiento, pero pocas veces manifiesta la gratitud que el discípulo ansía y en ocasiones incluso lo trata con una distancia que lo atormenta. Tan devoto como inseguro, Roland se pregunta por qué no es digno del interés de una persona tan maravillosa como el admirado maestro, ¿tan despreciable lo considera? La respuesta, sin embargo, es mucho más compleja y desconcertante de lo que podía sospechar, y sólo en el otoño de su vida, cuando él mismo se ha convertido en un respetado profesor, es capaz de evocar unos hechos que, ahora lo sabe, marcaron su vida más que todos los honores o los éxitos profesionales.
"Stefan Zweig supo conciliar las tramas más absorbentes con el estilo más preciso y el análisis más profundo. Así eran antes los best-sellers".
Javier Rodríguez Marcos, El País
"Nada más indiferente al paso del tiempo que las magníficas novelas de Zweig. Espeleólogo de lo más recóndito del alma humana, fue el maestro insustituible de los vaivenes y estragos de la pasión".
Mercedes Monmany, ABC
"Una pequeña obra maestra. Zweig consigue atraparnos. Primero con las lecciones fantásticas del profesor sobre Shakespeare. Después con una narración de intriga sentimental donde las pasiones saltan de la literatura a la vida sin solución de continuidad. ¡Fantástico!".
Ignasi Aragay, Ara
"Una novela verdadera, vital, osada, conmovedora, siempre".
Antonio Bordón, La Provincia
"La sabiduría, la veneración, la compasión, la humillación, la decepción o el miedo a la propia pasión son algunos de los temas que Zweig sugiere con esta hermosa historia. Esta breve novela de Zweig es un grito interior poderoso y dramático. Con sus novelas siempre tenemos asegurado el viaje hasta las inimaginables profundidades del sentimiento humano".
Fulgencio Argüelles, El Comercio
"La maestría estilística del escritor vienés se congratula en esta excelente novela con el estado de gracia de la trama argumental, para llevarnos a reflexionar hondamente sobre el afán por conocer. Zweig retrata la admiración no correspondida de un alumno hacia su profesor universitario y logra mantener la atención del lector como pocos autores saben hacerlo en la actualidad, apenas con la sencillez y un impecable estilo narrativo como marcas de la casa inimitables".
Cambio 16
"Una pequeña muestra de lo que es la gran literatura, clásica, siempre vigente".
Luis Alonso Girgado, El Ideal Gallego
"Magnífica novela. El austriaco fondeó el corazón humano y, para nuestra fortuna, regresó para contarlo".
María J. Mateo, 20 minutos
"La calidad inquisitiva y expresiva de Zweig para bucear en ideas y sentimientos sobresale una vez más ".
Félix Población, Periodistas en español.com

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Acantilado
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 31 mar 2020
• ISBN: 9788417902612

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, dessen Werke für ihre psychologische Raffinesse, emotionale Tiefe und stilistische Brillanz bekannt sind. Er wurde 1881 in Wien in eine jüdische Familie geboren. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er in einem intellektuellen Umfeld, das seine spätere Karriere als Schriftsteller prägte. Zweig zeigte früh eine Begabung für Literatur und begann zu schreiben. Nach seinem Studium der Philosophie, Germanistik und Romanistik an der Universität Wien begann er seine Karriere als Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er reiste durch Europa und pflegte Kontakte zu prominenten zeitgenössischen Schriftstellern und Intellektuellen wie Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann und James Joyce. Zweigs literarisches Schaffen umfasst Romane, Novellen, Essays, Dramen und Biografien. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören "Die Welt von Gestern", eine autobiografische Darstellung seiner eigenen Lebensgeschichte und der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, sowie die "Schachnovelle", die die psychologischen Abgründe des menschlichen Geistes beschreibt. Mit dem Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland wurde Zweig aufgrund seiner Herkunft und seiner liberalen Ansichten zunehmend zur Zielscheibe der Nazis. Er verließ Österreich im Jahr 1934 und lebte in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern, bevor er schließlich ins Exil nach Brasilien emigrierte. Trotz seines Erfolgs und seiner weltweiten Anerkennung litt Zweig unter dem Verlust seiner Heimat und der Zerstörung der europäischen Kultur. 1942 nahm er sich gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Lotte das Leben in Petrópolis, Brasilien. Zweigs literarisches Erbe lebt weiter und sein Werk wird auch heute noch von Lesern auf der ganzen Welt geschätzt und bewundert.

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Comentarios para Confusión de sentimientos

[drfp_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Not Zweig's best, it feels a tad lightweight in parts (perhaps things are too obvious?). As always with the author, it's wonderfully written, though I think his best work was completed in his short stories.

[cameling_2 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

In this, a seemingly directionless young student is suddenly inspired by a passionate professor of Shakespeare. The relationships between the student, the professor and his young wife are complicated and they (and the reader) go through a rollercoaster of emotions. It's hard to write a review of this without a lot of spoilers .. so I'll just say that this is a great study of student/mentor, psychological challenges, cultural taboos and expectations.

[yooperprof · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT - (though I think you'd have to be pretty dense not to realize what's going on after the first forty pages)"The love that dare not speak its name" in Wilhelmine Germany. Zweig's novella from 1926 is dated, but interestingly so. A tale of pedagogy and repression - and in the NYRB edition, beautifully translated by Anthea Bell.

[smiler69 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I picked up the novella known to me as [La confusion des sentiments] yesterday on audio, which I'd gotten from the library in the French translation read by an excellent narrator, Daniel Mesguich, a French-Algerian actor and director in theater and opera. I ended up doing lots of things around the house I'd put off for weeks and months just so I could listen to the whole thing in one 'sitting' so to speak. There's something about Zweig's writing I find deeply satisfying. He seems to go to the centre of human feeling and look at what moves us in a manner both unflinching, and also very gentle, perhaps because of all the attention to the finer movements of the heart he delves on. I had started this audiobook some months back and couldn't concentrate and so decided to put it off to a time when I felt more receptive to it, and I'm glad I did. It's a story told in the first person by a beautiful and naive young man of nineteen who initially has little or no interest in literature and studying, who on his first day at a new university meets a professor whose passionate delivery about Shakespeare and the Elizabethans is so mesmerizing that he becomes instantly enamoured of both the subject and the professor, both of which he decides to dedicate himself to heart and soul. Pure poetry and complex and satisfying character studies.

[msarki_3 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

A longer and more polished review to follow, but suffice to say that this novella was a treat from start to finish. There are parallels to my own life here, so much so that it may take me a while to write something of any note about this fine book. I am very happy to have added Stefan Zweig to my growing list of writers whom I adore and am so grateful for. This book may not be for everyone, as it deals mostly with what it means to love, and the manners in which love can happen and exist for a person who not only feels deeply but also wants to. It also concerns the ways in which love for ones art can overlap into the relationships between all others who pass and join for a time on the same or similar journey. Confusion is also about what is hidden behind our social behaviors that take place in order that they may conceal our truths, and how important it is to eventually, and safely, reveal them. A riveting and, for me at least, an exciting and dramatic novella that constantly and consistently pounds away at the truth about passion and love and, for some, the dire memory of what was.

[bibleblaster · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A particularly fitting title for my life these days, but that's a whole other story...
As for this story, I enjoyed the refined, poetic voice (sometimes to an almost absurd extreme, but fitting for the "old man putting himself into his younger self to tell a story of the loss of innocence" motif) and the exploration of the dark desires and twisted circumstances that lie just below the surface of lives we at first idealize.
I started this just before seeing Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel." I had no idea that he was inspired by Stefan Zweig (swear to God). The connection served to make the film less quirky in retrospect (which was a good thing) and allowed me to see glimpses of humor even in Zweig's brooding.
Zweig seems to have written many bite-sized novellas, which appeals to me these days as I have to steal moments for reading fiction. I will most definitely have another taste. (New York Review of Books e-book editions are available through the library here. Nice.)

[japaul22 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This novella explores the relationship between a young university student and his professor. The student is completely enamored of this professor's ideas and life and the professor quickly adopts him in return. He finds a flat in the same boarding house and starts spending every day with the Professor and his young wife. This novella captures a brief time period, probably only one semester, and is intense and dramatic. I enjoyed this, but sometimes when I read a novel of this length I leave unsatisfied. I feel like there was more that could have been explored here. There's no denying, though, that Zweig's writing is excellent.

[diefledermaus · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is another fantastic Zweig. A respected, successful professor looks back on the relationship that both made him and scarred him. He recalls his youth, first as a dissipated young man, then as a dedicated student who revered his literature professor, a moody but passionate man with a disapproving, changeable wife. The book is a highly addictive read and as usual, Zweig has excellent, intense depictions of varying psychological states. The central secret will probably be easy for modern readers to guess but it is still a powerful story.The narrator, Roland, first relates his hedonistic days as a student at a large university in Berlin. After being discovered by his father, he shamefacedly transfers to a smaller school in a provincial town. Roland was never a very dedicated student. However, when he walks in on his English professor giving a fiery, passionate lecture, he is swept away and delves into the material, transforming into a model student. The professor comes to act as a mentor to him and Roland spends more and more time at his professor’s apartment. He is also introduced to the professor’s wife, a cool and self-effacing woman. Strangely, when Roland meets her in public, she is cheerful and gregarious, seemingly a different person. When Roland decides to help his professor complete his unfinished magnum opus, the fragile relations between the three of them come crashing down.The literal translation of the original title is something like “Emotional Maelstrom” and this could fit almost any of Zwieg’s novels. Zweig does an amazingly good job of conveying the intensity of the characters’ feelings even when he does some telling instead of showing. However, the English title, Confusion, is also apt – the narrator is frequently uncertain about the thoughts and intentions of the professor and his wife. All the characters have two versions of their selves that are seen throughout the book and there are a number of scenes that have someone “catching” another character in a different mode. Roland’s father walks in on him with a girl, a moment of shame and discovery as well as the start of the actual plot. The narrator switches between thoughtless hedonist and dedicated student but remembering people observing him as the former is a source of embarrassment. The professor also has a double life. Roland catches him as an enthusiastic molder of minds and is inspired. Later, though, he reverts back to an old and tired man going through the motions of teaching. As they get closer, the professor is alternately a kind mentor or cold and insulting. His wife is caught in public by Roland in another confusion scene. This duality clearly leads up to the denouement and there is a related motif of observation and voyeurism. The frequent idea of someone watching becomes oppressive and the climactic scene takes place in the dark. In addition, the whole story is Roland’s memory of the past and it becomes obvious that he has preserved the confusing doubling of his youth – a point made clear in the last sentences.