Encounters and Destinies (eBook)

A Farewell to Europe

Stefan Zweig (Autor)

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2020
256 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-408-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day
Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or celebrated here cast a long spiritual shadow over Zweig's own writing life: Verhaeren, Rolland, Nietzsche, Roth, Mahler, Rilke and Freud.
Zweig's farewells, souvenirs and declarations of gratitude demonstrate his ardent pan-Europeanism and rich friendships across borders. Elegant and haunting, these tributes are a monument to his reverence for the arts and his belief in the sacredness of individualism.

Autor

Stefan Zweig was one of the most popular and widely translated writers of the early twentieth century. Born into an Austrian-Jewish family in 1881, he became a leading figure in Vienna's cosmopolitan cultural world and was famed for his gripping novellas and vivid psychological biographies.In 1934, following the Nazis' rise to power, Zweig fled Austria, first for England, where he wrote his famous novel Beware of Pity, then the United States and finally Brazil. It was here that he completed his acclaimed autobiography The World of Yesterday, a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars. The articles and speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig, a pacifist and internationalist, witnessed this destruction and warned of the threat to his beloved Europe. On 23 February 1942, Zweig and his second wife Lotte were found dead, following an apparent double suicide.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2020
• Übersetzer: Will Stone
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Arthur Schnitzler • Arturo Toscanini • Beware of Pity • Central European Literature • cultural essays • Emile Verhaeren • Frans Masereel • Freud Zweig • Friedrich Nietzsche • Hugo von Hoffmansthal • interwar Europe essays • James Joyce • John Drinkwater • Joseph Roth • Marcel Proust • Maxim Gorky • Messages from a Lost World • Messages to a Lost World • Proust Zweig • Rainer Maria Rilke • Rilke Zweig • Romain Rolland • Sigmund Freud • Stefan Zweig • Stephan Zweig • The World of Yesterday
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-408-1 / 1782274081
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-408-7 / 9781782274087