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Vol.1

Issue 59

September
2023

A reading of the novella “A Letter from an

Anonymous” by Stefan Zweig

By: Engi Khaled Ahmed

This month I finished the novella “A The woman said at the end of her
Letter from an Anonymous”; By the letter that she no longer believes in

famous Austrian-Jewish writer, God or fate, and that she no longer
Steven Zweig, and it is my first believes in anything but in the hero.

experience with him, and I do not That hero was an arrogant and
think it will be my last. I rated it four immoral novelist who spent his life

stars out of five. In fact, my high accompanying women and having
rating, which almost reaches the final affairs with them. In fact, I see - as

grade, was never the result of my Engi- that this phrase actually
conviction in the novella or the summarized everything that
motives of the unknown woman’s happened in the novella.

character, but rather the narrative When a person believes in a specific
and linguistic creativity that I came God, he is convinced of the sanctity

across. of his measures, no matter how hard
Zweig has an amazing ability to they are on him, and no matter how
penetrate a very complex female difficult they are for him to

psyche with this wonderful way. He understand. He blames everyone but
was able to prove to me that she was him, and hates everyone but him. It

a woman of flesh and blood, and is always God who receives his
that he was not a male novelist who forgiveness, his love, his gentle

created her from his imagination. reproach, and his firm faith in his
This is a real woman who embodied wisdom. This is how the unknown

Zweig and spoke with his pen about heroine was with her lover.
17 the deepest depths of her soul.