Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and
"Confusion," a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the
conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme
achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed
off by his father to a university in a sleepy provincial town.
There a brilliant lecture awakens in him a wild passion for
learning--as well as a peculiarly intense fascination with the
graying professor who gave the talk. The student grows close to the
professor, be-coming a regular visitor to the apartment he shares
with his much younger wife. He takes it upon himself to urge his
teacher to finish the great work of scholarship that he has been
laboring at for years and even offers to help him in any way he
can. The professor welcomes the young man's attentions, at least on
some days. On others, he rages without apparent reason or turns
away from his disciple with cold scorn. The young man is baffled,
wounded. He cannot understand.
But the wife understands. She understands perfectly. And one way or
another she will help him to understand too.
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