The impossible exile : Stefan Zweig at the end of the world / George Prochnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prochnik, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.

Zweig, Stefan.

Authors, Austrian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Austrian.

Jewish authors.

History.

Europe.

Europe--History--20th century--Biography.

Jewish authors--20th century--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Narrative non-fiction.

Physical Description:

390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York [New York] : Other Press, [2014]

Summary:

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 Petropolis--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-387).

National Jewish Book Awards - Biography, Autobiography and Memoir, Winner, 2014

ISBN:

9781590516126

1590516125

9781590517420

1590517423

OCLC:

851419979

Publisher Number:

40023527198