World of Yesterday
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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 838.91209
EAN: 9780803252240
ISBN: 0803252242
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 455
Publication Date: 1964-06
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Studio: University of Nebraska Press
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Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole France, and Romain Rolland are but a few of the friends he writes about.
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Summary: great but tragic memoir
Comment: Stefan Zweig writes a great memoir about the world before the Nazi Destruction of Europe. He was a true international person who tragically could not relate to the severe nationalism that swept the world. He felt comfortable in so many countries; unfortunately his own country disowned him and even though Brazil took him in, he did not have the desire to start over. His descriptions of famous personalities like Freud are the real strength of the book and make the book historically valuable.
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Summary: An odd, curiously tendentious account....
Comment: This is an interesting book, I grant, particularly for the period-view we get, and particularly since that period is so obscured from view by the enormity of the First World War and its consequences. It is more interesting for an in situ account of how the Austrian or other continental European, living in a centuries-old Empire, should come to regard "nationalism" as a distinct, distinctly evil thing. I say interesting because in fact nationalism simply means the sensibility that one lives in a nation, of which one is a citizen, rather than a monarchy, of which one is a subject - and the consequences which flow from that difference. We are still working them out, as Chou En Lai might say. But it is an especially curious misunderstanding since nationalism was really the RESULT of World War I - all those former provinces and dukedoms and prince-ipalities and colonies become autonomous states (from Czechoslovakia to Iraq) - not the cause. What Zweig and his intellectual brethren fail to acknowledge - more likely, do not want to admit - is that Germany was the aggressor, and Austria her sister in crime. Almost the entirety of subsequent discourse on European, even Modern political life - with all its ramifications for a development of an international political grammar - is in reality a gigantic evasion of this simple fact: German Militarism was to blame. Zweig stands at the dawn of this enterprise, resulting in the jump from "Empire!" to "Internationalism!" or Transnationlism, as epitomized by the intellectual left and UN-adorers, and its significance for the present ought to be obvious to anyone who watches the news. Unfortunately this successor sentiment, whether Communist or your typical Tranzi typically unaware of the provenance of his own ideas, serves political fanaticism equally well, as was demonstrated all throughout the world subsequent to (and largely as a consequence of) Zweig's war.
Anyway, an interesting account, particularly of the STD epidemic that ravaged the unfortunate whore-addicted brats of Franz Joseph's twilight Vienna, which convinced him of the much more natural beauty of Free Love (Achtung!), etc., but also tedious and tendentious, in my opinion.
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Summary: By far my favorite book
Comment: There is no better book that gives such deep, intimate insight into the Europe of 100 years ago, a Europe unrecognizable for today's man and yet the spring from which all events of this past century flowed. Truly beautiful, written with heartbreaking emotion and melancholy. Buy it!
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Summary: Book Review
Comment: Zweig provides a unique account of early 20th Century Europe and the feelings of Europeans during two of the most important events in history - World War I and World War II. His references and descriptions to many of the European writers, musicians, etc... were not the reason I wanted to read the book, but it still was an entertaining read.
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Summary: Reason in the age of Brutality
Comment: This is a truly important book. Not only because Stefan Zweig is an intellectual of the highest calibre, but the manner in which he guides you through the years of fundamental change in Europe and the world. From the pre WW1 years of security and intellectual pursuit for a better world, united intellectually and artistically, to its pointless breakdown which gave the twin evils of communism and facism footholds, and kept Europe in fear, ignorance and false intellectualism until the fall of the Berlin Wall, although the shock waves have yet still to fade altogether.
Being apolitical and non partizan makes Zweigs account all the more powerful. How mundane and everyday and unthought about were the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ( no one liked him; no one really cared) or the slow rise of Hitler and his National Socialists (They won't last a week) A blind faith in democracy, a belief that reason triumphs all fell due to stupidity of a fading oligharchy and the brutality of communism and facism. (Zweig recalls a conversation with his publisher in Russia who painfully recalled thinking that a load of ignorant Bolsheviks wouldn't last a week!)The manner in which so called 'intellectuals' got caught up in the jingoism abandoned Zweigs company when Hitler started his anti semitic hatreds.How much strength it took for Zweig and fellow pacifist thinkers such as Rolland to resist knowing what they did and how dangerous it was for them.
In this book lays a great message for all people of all times. We are still far away from Zweigs much hoped for age of reason ( the Taleban in Afghanistan, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, our own belief in our 'superior' morals) and are still -and always will be- vulnurable to brutality and ignorance of mob man.
A vital and important book.
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