By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna-its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, ...
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By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna-its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall. Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction. This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig's writing in arguably his most revealing work.
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Stefan Zweig's autobiography is a real-time, urgent eyewitness account of his beloved Europe ripping itself apart during World War II. The torment that he feels is compounded by the fact that he had previously endured the madness of World War I, which decimated that intellectual and cultural summit know as Vienna, and elsewhere. The madness - there is no better term to describe it - that he relates is relevant and familiar in our times; the branding of pacifists as "unpatriotic," the propaganda of newspaper and pop culture, the powers that be who do not fight but are willing to sacrifice the lives of others, all are familiar to the European in 1939, as well as the American in 2008. His intellect is inspiring. This book should be required reading in American high schools.
