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  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.

  [Verwirrung der gefühle. english]

  Confusion / by Stefan Zweig ; introduction by George Prochnik ; translated by anthea Bell.

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

  ISBN 978-1-59017-499-9 (alk. paper) I. Bell, anthea. II. title.

  PT2653.W42V513 2012

  833'.912—dc23

  2011043855

  ebook ISBN: 978-1-59017-661-0

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