num_pages: 136
description: A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel Journey into the Past published here for the first time in America is a novella that was found among Zweigs papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love in spite of everything - time war betrayal - can last Zweig tells the story of Ludwig an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned and the couple vow to live together but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic now shut down Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later however he returns to Germany to find his beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?
language: English
title: Journey into the Past
publisher: NYRB Classics