Stefan Zweig
Ne en Autriche en 1881, Stefan Zweig, desespere par la montee du nazisme, s'est suicide en 1942 au Bresil, ou il avait emigre. Resolument europeen, il fut le biographe eclaire de nombre de ses amis pacifistes. Il est aussi l'auteur de romans - La Confusion des sentiments ou Vingt-quatre heures dans la vie d'une femme - ou il met subtilement en scene sa connaissance de la psychanalyse naissante.
Ne en Autriche en 1881, Stefan Zweig, desespere par la montee du nazisme, s'est suicide en 1942 au Bresil, ou il avait emigre. Resolument europeen, il fut le biographe eclaire de nombre de ses amis pacifistes. Il est aussi l'auteur de romans - La Confusion des sentiments ou Vingt-quatre heures dans la vie d'une femme - ou il met subtilement en scene sa connaissance de la psychanalyse naissante. See less
Stefan Zweig's Featured Books
Stefan Zweig book reviews
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The world of yesterday an autobiography
Not what I expected
by ECBII, Feb 15, 2016
This book is supposed to be one of the definitive descriptions of what prewar Vienna was like, but I did not find it so. Zweig ruminated on his own life in a way which did not do him credit as a ... Read More
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Beware of pity
Reflective story of love and regret
by Alan W, Oct 27, 2011
Introspective and moving drama set just before the onset of World War I. A young, Austrian cavalry officer explores the rewards and dangers of befriending a wealthy young woman who is beset by ... Read More
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The World of Yesterday
History repeats itself, then repeats itself
Stefan Zweig's autobiography is a real-time, urgent eyewitness account of his beloved Europe ripping itself apart during World War II. The torment that he feels is compounded by the fact that he had ... Read More
