THE STRUGGLE WITH THE DAEMON

The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by t
he great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. In Struggle with the Daemon Stefa
n Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderl
in, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche - powerful minds whose ideas wer
e at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose in
toxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them to great works. In their st
ruggle with their inner creative force, Zweig reflects the conflict at the heart
of the European soul between science and art, reason and inspiration.