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| Title | : | The World of Yesterday |
| Author | : | Stefan Zweig |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 461 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0803252242 |
Stefan Zweig 1881 1942 was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that was loaded down with a b Stefan Zweig 1881 1942 was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about
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Stefan Zweig was one of the world s most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America and Europe He produced novels, plays, biographies and journalist pieces Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from and Unknown Woman and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.Zweig studied in Austria, France, Stefan Zweig was one of the world s most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America and Europe He produced novels, plays, biographies and journalist pieces Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from and Unknown Woman and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913 In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.Zweig s interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character Zweig s essays include studies of Honor de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky Drei Meister, 1920 Three Masters and of Friedrich Hlderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche Der Kampf mit dem Dmon, 1925 Master Builders He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit 1928 The Tide of Fortune , five historical portraits in miniature He wrote full scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouch 1929 , Mary Stuart 1935 , and others His stories include those in Verwirrung der Gefhle 1925 Conflicts He also wrote a psychological novel, Ungeduld des Herzens 1938 Beware of Pity , and translated works of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and mile Verhaeren.Most recently, his works provided inspiration for the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel 
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Stefan Zweig 1881 1942 was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his internationa
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