Fear (Zweig novella)
{{short description|1925 novella by Stefan Zweig}}
{{Infobox book
| name = "Fear"
| image = File:Fear (Zweig novella).jpg
| image_caption = First edition (German)
| author = Stefan Zweig
| title_orig = Angst
| translator = Anthea Bell
| country = Austria
| language = German
| publisher = Reclam
| pub_date = 1925
| english_pub_date = 2010
| pages = 75
}}
Fear ({{langx|de|Angst}}) is a 1925 novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was adapted into a 1928 silent film, Angst, directed by Hans Steinhoff, a 1936 film, La Peur, directed by Victor Tourjansky, and a 1954 film, Fear, directed by Roberto Rossellini.
Plot
The protagonist, Irene Wagner, is a married, young bourgeois who has a secret affair with a pianist. Due to blackmails from the pianist's girlfriend who is aware of the affair, Irene is seized with fear of losing her dolce vita.
Reception
Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian reviewed the book in 2010: "This is the stuff of melodrama: the typical Zweigian scenario in which, beneath the trappings of respectability, storms of carnal passion, guilt, shame and rage. It is no accident, you feel, that Zweig was writing at the same time and in the same city as Sigmund Freud."{{Cite web|last=Lezard|first=Nicholas|authorlink=Nicholas Lezard|date=2010-03-13|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/13/fear-stefan-zweig-nicholas-lezard|title=Fear by Stefan Zweig|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2012-04-17}}
See also
References
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Category:1925 German-language novels
Category:Austrian novels adapted into films
Category:Novellas by Stefan Zweig
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