Three masters. Balzac. Dickens. Dostoevsky. Zweig S.

Stefan Zweig is a classic of Austrian literature, the author of magnificent psychological short stories and fictionalized biographies translated into all languages ​​of the world. His biographies combine the artistic beauty of the style and fidelity of history. The present publication included fascinating biographies of three writers, who, according to the author, are “the only great nineteenth-century novelists,”-Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. Explaining his choice, Zweig writes: “The writer-novelist in the last, higher sense is only an encyclopedic genius, a comprehensive artist who... builds a whole cosmos and contrasts the earthly world with his own types, its own laws of gravity and its own starry sky.

Each of these artists in the abundance of images created by him is a kind of life -mesh, a certain law of life, so one and integral that it becomes a new form of the world. ” The book also included the famous essay on the life of the great humanist of the Renaissance “Triumph and the tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam.”