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Maria Antonietta. Una vita involontariamente eroica

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Stefan Zweig

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Frivola e intrigante per i cortigiani di Versailles, perversa aguzzina nella propaganda rivoluzionaria, eroina martire della restaurazione monarchica: chi era Maria Antonietta? Nel raccontare la sua vita, Stefan Zweig deve confrontarsi con una lunga tradizione di leggende, dicerie e violente passioni ideologiche. Ma ripercorrendone i passi di bambina sposa, moglie disprezzata, madre sensibile, austriaca isolata in una corte e una nazione ostili fino alla dignità degli ultimi istanti, che fanno coincidere la sua morte con la fine di un’epoca, Zweig trova una donna: un essere umano senza qualità particolari, costretto dal caso e dalla Storia a diventare grande. Maria Antonietta– senza che vengano sminuite le responsabilità politiche e morali del suo ruolo – diventa allora il luminoso esempio dell’individuo comune che si erge sopra la sua stessa mediocrità e assume una dimensione «involontariamente eroica». Perfetta sintesi di cura documentale, penetrazione psicologica e tensione narrativa, questo libro, forse la più amata tra le opere di Zweig, è ancora oggi considerato un vertice e un modello del genere biografico. La sua pubblicazione, nel 1932, mutò radicalmente l’immagine di Maria Antonietta, cancellò uno stereotipo e riconsegnò una figura viva e complessa tanto alla ricerca storica che all’immaginario popolare.

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian writer of Jewish descent. A distinguished Austrian writer and one of the most prominent writers in Europe at the beginning of the last century, he was famous for his extensive studies dealing with the lives of famous writers such as: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Balzac and Roman Rolland. Tightness in the lives of these notorious celebrities. Stefan Zweig has written many plays, novels and articles. His autobiographical work "Yesterday's World" was published to him after his suicide. He obtained British citizenship after the Nazis took power in Germany. He has lived on the move in South America since 1940. Among his well-known novels are: 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, and Beware of Pity, Builders of the World. Stefan decided to get rid of life while witnessing the collapse of world peace and the scourge of World War II. I did it without fear and did not forget to thank the government of Brazil, where he committed suicide for the hospitality and care, knowing that the late had obtained British citizenship shortly before his suicide. A farewell letter, including a letter to his first wife, after which Stefan Zweig and his second wife entered the bedroom and in one moment swallowed dozens of sleeping pills and embraced tenderly and hugged. The next day, the servants of the house broke into the bedroom because they were late in waking up to find the writer and his wife had died. In an eternal embrace and without making a fuss, the writer did not forget to give his pampered dog a large dose of hypnotics, so he slept in turn in front of the bedroom door.

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