Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig's masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer's own ego. Unconscious though it is, no reality is as important to the writer as the reality of their own life. Giacomo Casanova, Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), and Leo Tolstoy have different approaches to self-portraiture, but Zweig shows that together they symbolize three levels which represent successively ascending gradations of the same creative function. Casanova is depicted as having a primitive gradation;...
Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig's masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses...
'Unvergesslich war mir der Anblick: dies frohe Gesicht des weisshaarigen Greises da oben im Fenster, hoch schwebend uber all den murrischen, gehetzten, geschaftigen Menschen der Strasse, sanft aufgehoben aus unserer wirklichen widerlichen Welt von der weissen Wolke eines gutigen Wahns.' In dieser Sammlung finden sich die drei Novellen: Die unsichtbare Sammlung, Buchmendel, Unvermutete Bekanntschaft mit einem Handw
'Unvergesslich war mir der Anblick: dies frohe Gesicht des weisshaarigen Greises da oben im Fenster, hoch schwebend uber all den murrischen, gehetzten...
By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna--its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.
Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of...
By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warnin...
