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"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Queen of France and a claimant to the throne of England, was condemned for treason and executed at the age of forty-four. It has taken the free spirit and the immense talent of Stefan Zweig to justly reconstruct the life and passionate character of a woman who was so cruelly united with destiny.

A searing indictment of evil in Hitler's Germany. Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Goering, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards - the respect of the public, a castle - like villa, a uplace in Berlin's highest circles - are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare.

Hrdinou románu je bankovní ředitel,muž v nejlepších letech,který stojí na vrcholu bankéřské kariéry.Podnícen milostným vztahem se rozhodne uskutečnit svůj sen. Sen o idylickém životě ve světě přepychu a takřka dokonalou fintou za nechtěné pomoci lupičů vykrade vlastní banku.

Autorův románový fragment předvádí v úsměvném pohledu virtuózního podvodníka, který využívá své inteligence a fantazie k obelstění bohatého a hloupého světa (1.část nedopsaného díla).