Confusion, like other Stefan Zweig novellas recently published by the New York Review of Books Classics, is a deceptively simple tale. In prose that is swift and easily readable in one long sitting, Zweig narrates the story of a professor named Roland as he looks back from the other end of a productive and impactful career, recounting the central relationship — heretofore unknown by colleagues on the occasion of presenting him his Festschrift — that set him on a scholarly path.
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