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The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel
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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 Hitlerâ€™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 exileâ€”from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally PetrÃ³polisâ€”where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself.
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The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweigâ€™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 eraâ€”the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.
Country USA
Brand Other Press
Manufacturer Other Press
Binding Hardcover
Color Grey
Height 9.3
Length 6.57
Weight 1.69976404002
Width 1.35
ReleaseDate 2014-05-06
NumberOfItems 1

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