I never saw him again. I never received any letter or message. His work was never published, his name is forgotten; no one else knows anything about him, only I alone. But even today, as once I did when I was a boy still unsure of myself, I feel that I have more to thank him for than my mother and father before him or my wife and children after him. I have never loved anyone more.
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Copyright © 1927 by Williams Verlag, Zürich, and Atrium Press, London
Translation copyright © 2009 by Anthea Bell
Introduction copyright © 2012 by George Prochnik
First published in German as Verwirrung der Gefühle in 1927
This translation first published in 2002 by Pushkin Press Ltd.,
Revised 2009; published here by arrangement with Pushkin Press Ltd.
Cover image: Cover photograph: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Collapse, with Lamp, c. 1913
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Zweig, Stefan, 1881–1942.
Confusion / by Stefan Zweig ; introduction by George Prochnik ; translated by anthea Bell.
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ISBN 978-1-59017-499-9 (alk. paper) I. Bell, anthea. II. title.
PT2653.W42V513 2012
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