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The World of Yesterday - Memoirs of a European (Paperback)
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The World of Yesterday - Memoirs of a European (Paperback)
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'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go
with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that
of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier
burden of fate than almost any other in the course of history.'
During his lifetime, Stefan Zweig's (1881-1942) works were
immensely popular and widely translated. In the decades after his
death, he was largely forgotten in the English-speaking world.
Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of interest in
this singular author, and Pushkin Press has been at the forefront
of this movement. The World of Yesterday, Zweig's memoir, was
completed shortly before his suicide. It charts the history of
Europe from nineteenth-century splendour, decadence and
complacency, through the devastation of the First World War, to the
resultant brutality and depravity of the Nazi regime. The World of
Yesterday is a heartfelt tribute to an age of humanity and
enlightenment that Zweig feared was lost for ever. An incomparable
record of a lost era, this is also essential reading for those who
have already fallen in love with Zweig's fiction. 'One of the
canonical European testaments... [Zweig's] life and work tell of
the perilous flimsiness of our world of security - a message that
many insistently deny, but somehow need to hear' John Gray, New
Statesman 'One of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century'
David Hare 'Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good...
it's good to have him back' Salman Rushdie, The New York Times 'One
of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of
Stefan Zweig's stories' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the
Amber Eyes 'Zweig deserves to be famous again, and for good' Times
Literary Supplement 'Indispensable' The Times
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