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Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark / Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PT405 .W3513613 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weidermann, Volker, 1969-
- Standardized Title:
- Ostend. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.
- Zweig, Stefan.
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.
- Roth, Joseph.
- Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982.
- Authors, German--Homes and haunts--Belgium--Ostend.
- Authors, German.
- Authors, Austrian--Homes and haunts--Belgium--Ostend.
- Authors, Austrian.
- Authors, Exiled--Belgium--Ostend.
- Authors, Exiled.
- Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942--Friends and associates.
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939--Friends and associates.
- Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982--Friends and associates.
- Keun, Irmgard.
- Friends and associates.
- Authors, Austrian--Homes and haunts.
- Authors, German--Homes and haunts.
- Ostend (Belgium)--Social life and customs.
- Ostend (Belgium).
- Nineteen thirty-six, A.D.
- Belgium--Ostend.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 163 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town--a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and close friend Joseph Roth, himself newly in love. For a moment, they create a fragile paradise. But as Europebegins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts "the summer before the dark," when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Shober Family Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781101870266
- 1101870265
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