Amok ou le fou de Malaisie

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Stefan Zweig: Amok ou le fou de Malaisie (French language, 1991)

French language

Published Jan. 10, 1991

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978-2-253-05754-3
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Amok is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig. First printed in the newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922, Amok appeared shortly afterwards in the collection of novellas Amok: Novellas of a Passion. As Zweig was fascinated and influenced by Sigmund Freud’s work, Amok includes clear psychoanalytic elements. It deals with an extreme obsession, which leads the protagonist to sacrifice his professional and private life and, eventually, to commit suicide. The title of the novella comes from the Indonesian-origin term "amok", which was uncommon in those days. It refers to people who attack the enemy in supposedly blind anger and try to kill the enemy as well as anyone else in their way, randomly, without taking into consideration any danger. The actual title is Der Amokläufer an apparent High German neologism from the Indonesian original and the basis of "running amok". In the novella, as in Moonbeam Alley, Zweig …

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Come per "Paura " anche per Amok Sweig tiene incollati alle pagine un racconto breve con ritmo incalzante tensione crescente impossibile appoggiarlo . La storia tutta concentrata in un dialogo notturno su una nave agli inizi del 900 , le emozioni come sempre con Sweig vengono descritte con una precisione e una sintesi davvero geniale .