by Stefan Zweig, first published at 1925
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25382457-bir-kad-n-n-ya-am-ndan-yirmi-d-rt-saat
Highlights
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Insightful, quick novella that doesn’t reach the heights of Zweig’s masterful CHESS STORY but reminded me quite a bit of DEATH IN VENICE. The set-up in the first 15 pages is really fun (I love the way this generation of writers needs a first-person justification for a third person narrative, it’s realism mingling with the-author-is-present) and the inner-frame that the title references has some excellent moments. There’s a particularly good hand description that worth watching out for.