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Informationen zum Autor Will Stone, born 1966, is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. Shearsman Books has re-published his subsequent critically appraised collections. Will's poetry translations include To the Silenced - Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Arc, 2005) Emile Verhaeren Poems (Arc, 2013), Georges Rodenbach Poems (Arc, 2017) and Friedrich Hölderlin's Life Poetry and Madness by Wilhelm Waiblinger (2018). Pushkin Press published his translation of Montaigne by Stefan Zweig in 2015, Messages from a Lost World - Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig in 2016 and The Art of the City - Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel in September 2018. Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig and Surrender to Night - Collected Poems of Georg Trakl will be published in 2019. Will has contributed poems, translations, essays and reviews to a range of publications including The London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, Apollo Magazine, the RA Magazine, The White Review, Poetry Review and Agenda. Klappentext A collection of Joseph Roth's journalism from the moment preceding what looked to be Hitler's inevitable domination of Europe. Hitler's barbarism, the Second World War and other dynamics of the period represented for Roth the irreversible destruction of the pan-European consciousness. Zusammenfassung Having fled to Paris in January 1933! on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany! Joseph Roth wrote a series of articles in that 'hour before the end of the world'! that he foresaw was coming and which would see the full horror of Hitler's barbarism! the Second World War and most crucially for Roth! the final irreversible destruction of a pan-European consciousness. Incisive and ironic! the writing evokes Roth's bitterness! frustration and morbid despair at the coming annihilation of the free world while displaying his great nostalgia for the Hapsburg Empire into which he was born and his ingrained fear of nationalism in any form. ...
