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The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire.
29. Dez. 2023 · The World of Yesterday offers a poignant and introspective examination of the human condition during a tumultuous period in history. It portrays Zweig’s longing for a...
The World of Yesterday is the inimitably enriching and enthralling literary memoir of Stefan Zweig, an Austrian writer who was one of the world's most popular in the 1930s until forced by Nazi pressure to flee continental Europe in 1934 and emigrate to England, the U. S., and ultimately Brazil.
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5. Dez. 2009 · This is, in short, a book that should be read by anyone who is even slightly interested in the creative imagination and the intellectual life, the brute force of history upon...
26. Nov. 2022 · This is a memoir of a lost Europe, and how we lost it, in the First World War, during the run-up to the Second World War and finally during that war itself. It has been said that “ Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries ” (René Descartes). In a sense, books are like time machines.
Back in 1914 people were crazy with a dream of a better world. They knew nothing of the realities of war, and that’s why the victims wandered to the slaughter while the streets were festively lit. Two days earlier I was still in enemy territory in Belgium harboring the suspicion to politicians.
Zweig’s Intimate Chronicle of a Changing Europe. Stefan Zweig’s ‘The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European’ stands as a poignant and deeply personal account of his life against the backdrop of a Europe in the throes of monumental changes.
