Love and exile in “Letter from an Unknown Woman”
Stefan Zweig’s book, and Max Ophüls’s film, evoke thwarted passion and a lost world
THE ART conceived in Sigmund Freud’s Vienna has stood the test of time better than some of his debatable theories. For the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, for instance, Freud—whom Zweig knew and revered—meant not so much a set of clinical doctrines as a climate of feeling.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Love’s labour’s lost”
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