24 Horas En La Vida De Una Mujer

La protagonista me recordó el relato de Annie Ernaux en Pura pasión

Excelente, tanto la historia como la escritura, chapeau a Stefen Swart

Lo he disfrutado y su lectura fue súper entretenida, gracias

Solo los años y la experiencia podrían corroborar una historia como esta.

Excelente narración, la historia es antigua pero no deja de ser ilustradora de la moral

Leí este libro en mi adolescencia solo recordaba la escena de las manos en el casino.

Volver a leerlo a mis casi 50 años ha sido una experiencia totalmente diferente donde puede entender con la soledad, el vacío y la compasión de la protagonista.

100% recomendable

Una muy real experiencia de vida y aprendizaje!! Recomendado para leer.

Un relato lleno de sentimientos y pasiones. Un libro magnífico que trata sobre las adicciones.

Curiously old-fashioned and melodramatic, it felt like the product of 1877 rather than 1927...

This story within a story begins at a guesthouse on the French Riviera, where a scandal has just erupted: two of the guests, a seemingly respectable wife and mother and an attractive young stranger have fled together after speaking together for just a few hours. There is a raging debate among the guests about the morality of the situation. Should the woman be seen as a pariah, or were her motives of the heart pardonable? In this early 20th century setting, most of the guests believe the woman has committed an unspeakable act, but the narrator, a single man, doesn't think so. Mrs C, a respectable, white-haired English woman in her 60s, after a brief exchange with him, decides she must come clean about her past and proceeds to tell him a story from her younger days, when, within a 24-hour period she let her carefully constructed world of proper widowhood fall to pieces for stranger with a death wish. She had met the stranger in question at a casino, where she spent the evening observing the hands of the players and was taken in by his in particular—the most expressive she'd ever seen. Fascinated, she watches the stranger lose a huge sum of money, then, when he gives every sign that he has decided to do away with himself, she comes to his rescue and falls into a vortex of passion for which her life as a proper English lady had not prepared her: "Perhaps only those who are strangers to passion know such sudden outbursts of emotion in their few passionate moments ... whole years fall from one's own breast with the fury of powers left unused." But can one really expect true love and dedication from an addict? Another very short novel (around 100 pages) by Zweig filled to the brim with timeless human drama. Strongly recommended.