It is his narratives that make Stefan Zweig one of the most read authors in the world. This central aspect of his work is now being newly explored as part of the Salzburg edition. Zweig particularly vividly sketches childhood, adolescence, and youthful love troubles in these early texts (1900-1911). In "Burning Secret," the famous novella that has been adapted into film several times, he takes on the role of a child rebelling against insincere parents. Sigmund Freud classified this prose as "subtle and psychologically significant," reflecting the depths of the unconscious. The writer's youthful work is an extraordinary discovery.