Identity, Emotions, and Death: Interpreting Letter from an Woman from the Perspective of Biographical Criticism

Abstract

Stephen Zweig's Letter from an Woman focuses on a long letter sent by a woman to unfold the story plot. Death is the prominent theme of the work, and highlighting the psychological activities of the characters is the author's realistic writing style. This work is set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime in 20th century Europe, and through imaginative reconstruction, it shapes the author's identity embodiment, emotional projection, and the world of yesterday; Completed the dialectical relationship between the author and oneself, with the group, with history and the era, between reality and illusion. This plays a role in rediscovering the author's subjectivity in biographical literature, providing valuable examples for its further development in the process of transformation.