Miranda Seymour
No Don Juan
Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig
By Oliver Matuschek (Translated by Allan Blunden)
Pushkin Press 381pp £20 order from our bookshop
Among the treasures in the British Library, one of the most unexpected is a collection of autographed manuscript scores that includes Mozart’s thematic catalogue of his own works. Donated in 1986, these formed part of the incredible hoard accumulated by Stefan Zweig throughout his life.
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'And there in the evening the bride and the gamekeeper
Wait with their faces averted, wait
For the signal to shift and the lamp to glow red
And a train to arrive, but not yet and not yet.'
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