Journey Into the Past Read online

  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

  All rights reserved.

  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

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