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Stefan Zweig

The World of Yesterday (Volume 2)

Name: The World of Yesterday (Volume 2)
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: e916ef37-6bc0-4109-8c16-b67893c90457-hi-en
Price: 52.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Stefan Zweig

Original publication: 1942
Pages: 515
Difficulty: ★★★
Genres: Biography and Autobiography, History
Translated from: German

Book summary

The second volume opens in the first hours of August 1914, with cheering crowds and the loneliness of those who refuse. Zweig describes his work in the war archives, his stay in Switzerland near Romain Rolland, then the collapse of Austria and the inflation that emptied fortunes. National Socialism rises, exile in London follows, and with it the loss of his language and his readers. The volume explores war, the disappearance of a country and what exile does to a writer. Zweig finished these memoirs in Brazil, recording what had been lost.

The plot

A writer watches Europe change before his eyes. He is reading in a park near Vienna. Suddenly the music stops: the heir to the Austrian throne has just been assassinated. A month later, war breaks out.

The world of the book

A great empire becomes a small country. In 1914, Austria-Hungary was one of the largest countries in Europe, with Vienna as its capital. In 1918, after the war, the empire vanished and Austria became a small country.…

The author

Stefan Zweig, 1881 – 1942. Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna, Austria. As a young writer, he made friends all over Europe. In 1919, he settled in Salzburg, in a house at the top of a hill. Artists from all over the world…

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Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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