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

Prochnik, George

ISBN 10: 1590516125 / ISBN 13: 9781590516126

Edité par Other Press, New York, 2014

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purple cloth silver lettering dust jacket 323 pp first edition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Impossible Exile _ Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
• Éditeur: Other Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1590516125
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781590516126
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo.
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel
 
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 Petrópolis—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.

À propos de l?auteur

George Prochnik’s essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. He has taught English and American literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine, and is the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology. He lives in New York City.