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A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars. Including pieces on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky and Arturo Toscanini, this essential collection is also Zweig's tribute to the ideal of friendship: an ideal he clung to as the world he knew was torn apart. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It is strange to read these eulogies to those whose fame lives on, such as Mahler (where Zweig only knew him as a contemporary), or not, such as Verhaeren (unknown to me, but a very famous poet before the First World War and a personal friend of Zweig who translated his poems into German). These aren’t obituaries or biographies, which I had mistakenly assumed would be the case. The language used is that of the panegyric, which reads as very over the top to this modern sensibility.
However there are insights into the times from Zweig’s descriptions of both the mundanities of contemporary life, and also of larger events, such as reference to Zeppelins and the rush back from holidaying in Belgium to Germany before the outbreak of the First World War in the long essay about Verhaeren.
The funeral oration for Joseph Roth is more biographical than the other pieces (albeit brief), and considers Roth a threefold personality, combining Russian, Jewish and Austrian sensibilities.: The Jewish sensibility created his novel Job, his Austrian sensibility creating The Radetzky March (which I consider a masterpiece) and The Emperor’s Tomb, but then the triumph of Nazism in Germany and Austria driving Roth to an alcoholic despair (characterised as Russian), and an early death. The cry for a cultural “forward defence position” made at the end of the oration is tragic, given our knowledge of Zweig’s subsequent suicide.
This is a book for the completist, but is rewarding if appreciated on its own limited terms. ( )