In the Future of Yesterday
Haus Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-914979-10-1 (ISBN)
In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and delves into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. His privileged social background saw him embrace European culture and cosmopolitanism. A world traveller from the outset he liked to uproot himself but whether he stayed in London, New York or, eventually, in Brazil, his literary baggage continued to contain the flair of fin de siècle Vienna.
This biography re-examines Zweig’s influential time in England and offers new insights into his final years in the United States and Brazil; it discusses some of his prolific literary output in relation to his life; and takes his political views on Europe, Zionism, and the world order more in greater depth than previous appraisals of Zweig’s life.
But the considers the many contradictions in his views and attitudes, which included an initial, and surprising, leniency towards Fascist. Most importantly though, In the Future of Yesterday presents Zweig as a towering figure of a form of writing that was bursting with ‘life’ and was written in the knowledge that there can only be a future if we remain conscious of the past. In that sense at least, Zweig is a writer for our time.
Rüdiger Görner was Professor of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. The Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Oskar Kokoschka. He has been the recipient the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Contents
Preliminaries, or How to Approach Stefan Zweig:
A Writer from the Past for Our Time 1
Portrait of a Writer as a Young Man, or Early (Poetic)
Orientations in Vienna and Elsewhere 17
The Virtue of Restlessness 39
Early Days for Fiction 63
Keeping Up with ‘Life’ 81
Jeremiah in the First World War 99
Tracing Demons, or How to Approach Greatness 125
Towards European Transnationalism 159
The Torch of Eros, or The Confusion of a Reluctant Modernist 177
Political Ridge Walks 193
Life Amidst Crises: Stefan Zweig at and around Fifty 205
The Uprooting of an Austrian, or Fascist Trauma and Early Exile 219
How to Become an Alien and Experiencing England 233
Autographs, Collections, and Other Approaches to
World Literature 253
Zweig, the Transatlantic Explorer 265
Pity about Pity 285
Clarissa, Montaigne, Balzac: A Fragmentary Trio 297
Austria in Brazil: Arriving at the Final Address 313
Chess with Time, or Yesterday’s Checkmate 331
Notes on Zweig’s Legacy 341
Words of Thanks 357
Notes 359
Bibliography 381
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 black and white images |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914979-10-9 / 1914979109 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914979-10-1 / 9781914979101 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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