Home again, Christine takes up her old life of drudgery and despair. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Only one person sees me this way and it's rare that anyone else has in the past. Only one person sees me this way and it's rare that anyone else has in the past. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. The Invisible Collection: Tales of Obsession and Desire. The adoration reaches a peak and then, with ruthless pleasure, they begin to rip apart the persons reputation. Welcome back. They want this person to represent a desire or to be an object of intrigue, so they make her as they wish her to be, and because they made her they can unmake her too. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. James notes with bitter irony that in burning Zweig's private library in Salzburg, the Nazis "knew exactly what he represented, even if some literary critics still don't". Claire had emigrated to America 25 years earlier, after being paid off by the family of a rich Viennese businessman with whom she was conducting a scandalous affair; in New York she married a wealthy cotton merchant, and now she has returned on vacation to Europe and thinks to treat her sister's daughter to a little break from provincial life. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? The second part of the book is, perhaps tellingly then, completely different in tone to the first. The author and I have the same idea about a specific thing and it tore me apart as I was reading it. Please try your request again later. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Some books grip me, make me react in a negative way, putting me in a psychological state of melancholia and grief, but it's rare that I feel as if I'm inside the character's head as he/she is speaking to me. To order The Post Office Girl for £7.99 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to theguardian.com/bookshop, John Banville applauds the return of a novel that directly addresses the turmoil of its time. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. From the Wes Anderson film, I anticipated something droll, mannered, yet with some sharp edges. Please try again. We did this book for book club. When it is revealed that she is not the mysterious "Christiane van Boolen", the name she has innocently given herself, but plain Christine Hoflehner the post office girl, her aunt, fearing her own humble and scandalous background might also be revealed, takes fright and sends Christine packing. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Historically worthwhile but not for depressives, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2018. I picked ‘The Post Office Girl’ because a brief plot description proved intriguing: an impoverished young woman works at a post office. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Here I am, writing another review of a book written by Stefan Zweig. Start by marking “The Post-Office Girl” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It's disjointed and incomplete, as Zweig surely knew. She suffers mind numbing boredom and a stultifying existence working as a post-office clerk. A brilliant writer, a wonderful story, a collection of details. Although the subject matter is bleak, the author writes with a lightness o f touch that feels very current, yet remains exquisitely literary. However, they change their minds and decide on a different but hardly less desperate venture, and at the close of the book we leave them as they are about to leap, hand in hand, into a terrifying future. Loved it and can't wait to read more of his novels. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well.". The author's intellectual energy and perfection is impressive. Among his novels, the two that are best known are Letter from an Unknown Woman and The Post Office Girl, the latter published posthumously. She has lost her father and her brother to the war, and lives in poverty with her mortally ill and despairing mother. It is a book that concerns a female postal clerk in a small town in Austria. The Post Office Girl (German: Rausch der Verwandlung, which roughly means The Intoxication of Transformation) is a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.It tells the story of Christine Hoflehner, a female post-office clerk in a small town near Vienna, Austria-Hungary, during the poverty-stricken years following World War I.The book was published posthumously in 1982. She was born in 1898 and thus in her teens went through the deprivations of WW I. Review: The Post Office Girl. The post-office girl can’t cope and only when a seemingly likeminded disgruntled soul crosses her path do we think that maybe there might be some kind of redemption. 10:52 am Review: The Post Office Girl. [I felt there is some disconnect in the last part of book. I felt I had a much greater knowledge of the period (following WW1) and the country (Austria). A story of poverty, despair and disillusioned lives. Ferdinand thinks rationally, planning step-by-step what he intends to do; Christine takes pride in never being a burden but errs in regarding Ferdinand as superior. An astounding book! "The Post Office Girl" is the story of Christine Hoflehner, a 28 year old going on 80 member of the lower middle class. (Another ‘light’ read, LOL.) If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. And when one plan succeeds another towards the end, the wild hope is enough to make you gasp and clench your fists. The themes present in life during the grips of post-WWI stricken Austria (poverty, death, sickness, class distinctions); are sadly harsh realties that are also relatable in the modern day. In his culminating essay, James describes his own book as "really the story of the will to achievement in the face of all the conditions for despair", and takes Zweig as an exemplar of his theme. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2012, Zweig resolutely understood the bleakness of individual lives set against the remorseless grinding of a state machinery. "The Post Office Girl" is the story of Christine Hoflehner, a 28 year old going on 80 member of the lower middle class. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. , but appeared to have a certain tenderness for his seething, raging, exploited characters which you don't get with Gissing. I loved this first book. Not take away from the two other responses, but I felt Part 1 was nicely tidied up at the break. Emma Straub was all set to spend May on tour promoting her new novel, All Adults Here. For me it was travel. I liked this book a lot. I wanted to read something by Stefan Zweig because his writing was apparently the inspiration for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, one my favourite films of 2014. I picked ‘The Post Office Girl’ because a brief plot description proved intriguing: an impoverished young woman works at a post office. He was born in 1881 into a wealthy Viennese merchant family; his father and mother were Jewish, but only, as he said later, through an accident of birth, for the Zweigs were thoroughly assimilated - or at least thought they were, until the Nazis arrived and informed them otherwise. Stefan Zweig was certainly assimilated into Vienna's brilliant intellectual café world of the 1920s and 30s, and knew and was admired by most of the great European literary figures of the time (although Thomas Mann later dismissed him in his diary as a mediocrity). He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Zweig's work is marked by a clear, fluent and expressive style, which translates easily and well, a paramount requirement for international success, but also frequently a millstone that can drag down the posthumous reputation of even a highly gifted writer.
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