Stefan Zweig, through his novel Twenty-Four Hours of a Woman's Life, presents a hidden aspect of the human psyche through the personality of a woman who suddenly decides to give up her family stability, so that Zweig crosses us through many narrative circles of human life as based on a coincidence that determines destinies. In this novel, Stefan Zweig sneaks into the darkest places in the human psyche, that geography that is governed by lust and unreasonableness. The protagonist of the novel, Mrs. Henriette, is a married woman and mother of two young women, very quiet and cohesive to the extremes. She escapes with an attractive and charming young man, whom she has not known before. For more than 24 hours, she had met him in a small hotel on the French Riviera. Only the narrator defended this woman, and he disagreed with all his companions about her, except with this English lady who decided to tell him this chapter of her life, which is determined by twenty-four hours..
