Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters write by Stefan Zweig. This book was released on 2010-09-16. Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. >
Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters
Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters write by Stefan Zweig. This book was released on 2010-09-16. Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide together in 1942. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's correspondence all but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his second-wife, secretary and travel-companion. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs' time together and for the first time reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally emerges from her husband's shadows, with the letters offering significant insights into their relationship and her experience of exile.
The Impossible Exile
The Impossible Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impossible Exile write by George Prochnik. This book was released on 2014-05-06. The Impossible Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig 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.
The Exiles
The Exiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Exiles write by Daria Santini. This book was released on 2019-09-05. The Exiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, became well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.
Portable Modernisms
Portable Modernisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portable Modernisms write by Emily Ridge. This book was released on 2017-06-23. Portable Modernisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.
