Journey Into the Past (10 page)

ANTHEA BELL
2009

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Copyright © by Williams Verlag, Zürich, and Atrium Press, London

Translation copyright © 2009 by Anthea Bell

Introduction copyright © 2011 by André Aciman

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Originally published as
Widerstand der Wirklichkeit
, 1987

Translation published by arrangement with Pushkin Press Ltd.

Cover image: Cover image: Léon Spilliaert,
Interior
, 1909

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Zweig, stefan, 1881–1942.

[Widerstand der Wirklichkeit. English]

Journey into the past / by Stefan Zweig ; introduction by André Aciman; translated [from the German] by Anthea Bell.

    p. cm. —(New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN 978-1-59017-367-1 (alk. paper)

1. Young men—Germany—Fiction. 2. Married women—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. 4. Love stories. I. Bell, Anthea. II. Title.

PT2653.W42W5313 2010

833'.912—dc22

2010016526

ebook ISBN: 978-1-59017-412-8
v1.0

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