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Author : Stefan Zweig
Release : 2010-09-16
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters by : Stefan Zweig
Download or read book Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters written by Stefan Zweig. This book was released on 2010-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Oliver Marshall
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis 茨威格夫妇的南美书信(Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters) by : Oliver Marshall
Download or read book 茨威格夫妇的南美书信(Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters) written by Oliver Marshall. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time, his work translated into all major languages and many lesser ones too. Foreseeing Nazi Germany s domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933 for England. In 1940 Stefan Zweig and his young wife Lotte travelled to New York, Argentina and Brazil and eventually settled in an mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro. With Europe in turmoil as a result of World War II, in despair regarding the future and feeling increasingly isolated, in February 1942 the Zweigs both committed suicide. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig s correspondence all but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his second-wife, secretary and travel-companion, with whom he committed suicide in 1942 in a Brazilian mountain resort. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs time together and for the first time reproduces personal letters, written in English by the couple in the United States, Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally emerges from her husband s shadows, with the letters offering significant insights into their relationship and her experience of exile.This book won critical praise when it was published in English and has been translated into Portuguese and French. In France, where it was published by the prestigious Editions Grasset, the book met with particular commercial success.
Author : George Prochnik
Release : 2014-05-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 133/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Impossible Exile by : George Prochnik
Download or read book The Impossible Exile written by George Prochnik. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile—from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also depicts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world of ideas in Europe and in America, and the consuming struggle of those forced to forsake one for the other. It also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era—the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.
Author : Daria Santini
Release : 2019-09-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 284/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Exiles by : Daria Santini
Download or read book The Exiles written by Daria Santini. This book was released on 2019-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, became well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.
Author : Emily Ridge
Release : 2017-06-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Portable Modernisms by : Emily Ridge
Download or read book Portable Modernisms written by Emily Ridge. This book was released on 2017-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.
