في هاتين القصتين، يرسم زفايغ بلغة الفن أثر الحرب حتى في من لم يشارك فيها، من خلال شخصيتين فريتين كلتاهما حبيسة عالم خاص بها وحدها.

تليها "المجموعة الخفية", حيث تتجلى براعة زفايغ في تصوير العوالم النفسية المعقدة.

The greatest power of literature is to break any limits, and this book allows us to partake in this. Vargas Llosa discusses here some literary works such as Lolita, Death in Venice, The Stranger, Manhattan Transfer, Tropic of Cancer, and The Tin Drum.

This splendid work is an immersion in the views of the author, one of the most brilliant writers of our time, about the purpose of literature and the present and future of books.

Description in Spanish: Lolita, Muerte en Venecia, El extranjero, Manhattan Transfer, Trópico de Cáncer y El tambor de hojalata son sólo algunas de las obras del siglo XX de las que nos habla Mario Vargas Llosa en estas páginas. Revela con sus palabras la íntima relación de su lectura con las posibilidades de ampliar nuestra experiencia vital.

Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Meša Selimović. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him.

He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran. In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic that was made into a feature length film in 1974.