Sonunun çok hızlı bitirildiğini ve aceleye geldiğini düşünmüştüm ve bitirdikten sonra yaptığım araştırmada bu kitabın Zweig'ın yazmayı bitiremeden intihar ettiği son kitabı olduğunu öğrendim. Geri kalan kısımlar da yayıncı tarafından tamamlandığı için doğal olarak Zweig'ın alışılmış anlatım tarzına göre çok yavan kalmış. Yine de oldukça güzel ve savaşın insanlar üzerinde bıraktığı izleri etkileyici biçimde anlatan bir kitaptı.

כיצירתו האחרונה של סטפן צוייג החביב עליי, קיוויתי לאהוב את "קלריסה" יותר, אך בעיניי היא אינה מפסגות יצירתו של צווייג.
צווייג כתב בימי חייו כ-60 יצירות, רבות מהן גאוניות ממש. ההשוואה לחלק מיצירותיו האחרות של צווייג (אלה שקראתי) לא עושה חסד עם קלריסה, שנראית בעיניי כסיפור פשוט למדי, בוודאי ביחס לסיפורים אחרים וטרגיים שהתרחשו בתקופת מלחמת העולם הראשונה.

yazarın yarım kalmış bi kitabı olduğundan sonu çok yavan kalmış

I wasn't too sure on how to rate this book. Clearly it was a draft, Zweig had a lot to work on, nonetheless his psychological analysis of people and situations were striking as usual. I enjoyed it a lot less than his other works, but knowing it was an unfinished draft, I couldn't rate it any less than any of his other works.

Es una novela que se queda a medias se nota que el autor la dejó inconclusa. Tampoco me ha gustado un comentario que hace sobre las mujeres en la política Ca, transcribo la cita: "El diablo posee a las mujeres que ejercen la política. Me refiero a las mujeres ambiciosas. La ambición corresponde a los hombres, en las mujeres se convierte en una caricatura. Intentas construir algo nuevo, intentas unir a las personas por una causa y ellas se echan las culpas unas a otra. "(Página 79)
Creo que siendo el 52 % del a población mundial queda demostrado que no es cuestión de género la política.

The fact that this is an unfinished novel does nothing to diminish its value to the reader. It starts as a coming-of-age story of a young Austrian girl, Clarissa, daughter of a strict and cold general who never shows any love towards her or her brother. Only as she grows up she manages to learn about emotions and how they can be used, experiences and expressed. Clarissa is talented, and soon finds work with a Jewish professor, as his assistant. He sends her to replace him at some symposium in Switzerland, and then she meets a French teacher. They gradually get to know each other and become closer. Clarissa learns to open her heart to another human being, and experiences love for the first time in her life. But then WWI breaks out, and the two have to separate. Clarissa decides to become a nurse, where she is overwhelmed by the number of wounded and the amount of suffering war inflicts upon people. Her lover is far away, maybe fighting for his country. She has no way of knowing. I don't want to spoil the rest of the book, so I won't say anymore about the plot. But the writing... oh, the writing! It is as superb as they come. It is profound and psychologically accurate, and there were parts where I had to mark almost every other sentence since they were all so perfect and insightful. Zweig is soon becoming one of my favorite authors.

He leído todas las novelas de Stefan Zweig y, salvo El candelabro enterrado que no me entusiasmó, todas las demás me han gustado. Como bien decía alguien por aquí, Zweig no escribe de más ni de menos. Por lo visto, revisaba sus manuscritos una y otra vez para reducir las páginas al mínimo (la mayoría de sus novelas no tienen más de cien páginas). Y siempre me ha gustado su sensibilidad hacia los personajes, incluso, y sobre todo, los femeninos, que a menudo son los protagonistas de sus novelas. Sus protagonistas cometen errores, pero el autor siempre parece comprensivo y compasivo. Después de todo, los protagonistas de Zweig suelen actuar impulsados por amor o compasión. ¿Quién no iba a disculparles por cometer errores?