144 years ago today, November 28, 1881 (October 7, 1881 in the lunar calendar), the Austrian novelist Stephen Zweig was born. Stephen Zweig On November 28, 1881, the Austrian novelist Stephen Zweig was born. Stefan Zweig (1881.11.28~ 1942.22) is a novelist and biographer. He is good at writing novels and biographies, as well as poetry, drama, biographies, prose features and translations. It is famous for portraying humane inner impulses, such as pride, vanity, jealousy, hatred, etc., and is full of sensational skills. His works include "Moonlight Alley","Invisible Collection","Letter from a Strange Woman","The Story of Chess","The Great Tragedy", etc. His novels mostly describe people's subconscious activities and people's destiny driven by passion. His works are good at portraying the characters and psychological portrayals, and he prefers certain dramatic plots. But he does not attempt to attract readers with the twists and turns of the plot, but to highlight people and events that make people linger in the dullness of life. He came from a wealthy Jewish family. In his youth, he studied philosophy and literature in Vienna and Berlin. Later, he traveled around the world and met Roman Roland and Rodin, and was influenced by them. During the First World War, he engaged in anti-war work and became a famous pacifist. He went to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and met Gorky. He was expelled by the Nazis in 1934 and went into exile in Britain and Brazil. In 1942, he and his wife both committed suicide in loneliness and feeling disillusioned. Since the 1920s, Stephen Zweig has "won a wide reputation for writing in German that is not exclusive to English and French." He is good at using various genres, has written poems, novels, dramas, literary theories, biographies, and has also engaged in literary translation. He has outstanding attainments in poetry, short essays, novels, plays and biographies, but his works are most famous for his novels and biographies. Zweig is interested in psychology and Freudian theory, and his works are good at detailed character portraying and describing personal experiences and spiritual enthusiasm under a strange destiny. His works have lasting charm around the world. Many domestic publishing houses have published almost all of his biographies and collections of novels in recent years. His representative works include the novels "The Initial Experience","Malay Madman","Fear","The Chaos of Feeling","The Turning Point of Human Destiny"(also translated as "The Turning Point of Life"),"Letter from a Strange Woman"(also translated as "Letter from a Strange Woman"),"The Story of Chess","24 Hours in a Woman's Life","Battle of Waterloo","Dangerous Mercy", etc.; memoir "Yesterday's World"; Biographies "The Right of Heresy","Magellan's Voyages","The Beheaded Queen","The Moment When the Stars of Humanity Shine"(also translated as "When the Stars of Humanity Shine"),"The Three Masters","The Struggle with the Elves","Three Poets Who Describe Their Own Lives", etc.