Messages From a Lost World - Europe on the Brink

Zusatztext 48732484 Informationen zum Autor Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman , Amok and Fear . In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity , and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. 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 essays by the author Stefan Zweig! written in the 1930s and 1940s! published in English for the very first time. He shows his profound concern for and dedication to the survival of Europe's spiritual integrity. A collection of essays and speeches by Stefan Zweig from the 1930s and 1940s published here in English for the very first time. Zusammenfassung Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement! of pro-active cultural exchange! humane decency and tolerance! all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed! and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses! forged in the last years or even months of his life! he shows his profound concern for and dedication to the survival of Europe's spiritual integrity. These essays form the natural accompaniment to Zweig's renowned memoir The World of Yesterday ! registering the same themes and evoking the same nostalgia for a world brutally consigned to history. They can be seen as a vital addendum to that major work or as a prefiguration. But perhaps even more so than the prose of the memoir! these essays! few in number but rich in content! reveal the essence of Zweig's thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword by John Gray 9 Translator’s Introduction 15 The Sleepless World—1914 39 The Tower of Babel—1916 51 History as Poetess—1931 61 European Thought in Its Historical Development—1932 85 The Unification of Europe—1934 113 1914 and Today—1936 125 The Secret of Artistic Creation—1938 135 The Historiography of Tomorrow—1939 159 The Vienna of Yesterday—1940 183 In This Dark Hour—1941 207 Details of First Publication 213 ...

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Zweig
• Assisted by: Will Stone (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9781782271550
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-155-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature