In one work by this author, a man known as "the Baron," befriends a boy named Edgar in order to get closer to and seduce Edgar's mother.
In one work by this author, a man known as "the Baron," befriends a boy named Edgar in order to get closer to and seduce Edgar's mother. In another of this author's works, the title prophet urges the people of Jerusalem to make peace with the Chaldean army. In addition to The Burning Secret and the anti-war drama Jeremiah, this author wrote of Edith Kekesfalva, the paralyzed daughter of a rich Hungarian merchant who falls in love with Anton Hofmiller, an Austrian cavalry officer, in his only full novel, Beware of Pity. Pushkin Press has recently issued a new translation of this author's abandoned work titled "The Post-Office Girl," as well as his long-lost novella "Journey Into the Past." This author's most famous story, mailed to his publisher the day before his suicide in Brazil, concerns a voyage during which one of the passengers defeats a grandmaster in the title game owing to the fact that he used to play the game against himself when imprisoned by the Nazis. For 10 points, identify this Austrian-Jewish author of the memoir The World of Yesterday, and many novellas such as "Chess Game."
In one work by this author, a man known as "the Baron," befriends a boy named Edgar in order to get closer to and seduce Edgar's mother.
Stefan Zweig