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...My attention was held by his recommendation of a “beautiful, civil book of great ideals”, Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European — published in 1942....
...Here, as a confidence boost, Art is to run amok among losers like mangy, ageing Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor). Meanwhile, like many marriages, there are bodies buried in the union....
...As sympathetic as I am towards Janan Ganesh’s views about a globalised world in which borders and nationalities appear non-existent (Life & Arts, June 3), his piece reminded me of Stefan Zweig’s The World...
...Joyce’s and Zweig’s membership cards (together with those of several other illustrious members) are displayed in the staircase....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is without question The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European, by Stefan Zweig, which was published posthumously in 1942, after he died in Brazil....
...Will they read it like [we read] the Austro-Hungarian writers, Zweig, Musil and Joseph Roth, with this nostalgia of a world that is gone?...
...Email Janan at janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Yearning for the globalised world of Zweig’s memoir / From Raf Goovaerts, London NW3, UK...
...Writer Joseph Roth told Stefan Zweig, “Do not delude yourself. Hell reigns”. By late February, Nazi decrees had laid the basis for “absolute control”....
...Terry de Gunzburg, founder of make-up brand By TerryThe Royal Game by Stefan Zweig This tale of resilience and motivation is about a man who is arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in a hotel....
...In the popular writer Stefan Zweig, Strauss saw a successor to his late collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal, hailing Zweig’s libretto as the best “for a comic opera since Figaro”....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig, which feels contemporary but was written in the ’40s....
...It was both the “world of yesterday” brought vividly to life by novelist Stefan Zweig but whose imperial pomp and circumstance were viciously mocked by contemporaries such as Karl Kraus and Robert Musil...
...Henry’s wife brings a copy of The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig to the dinner table and pays it more attention than she does her own husband, prompting Henry to shout “Your craziness is making me crazy...
...Hailed as a genius by fellow Austro-Hungarian Stefan Zweig, among others, Roth was one of the mostly highly respected German-language writers of his day....
...It is late and, well, I did promise Zweig I’d see him for lunch tomorrow....
...The second, highly belatedly, is Stefan Zweig’s classic, The World of Yesterday, which I’ve long meant to read but only now for some reason redeemed....
...It’s also a city synonymous with coffee houses, a place where in the early 20th century artists, writers, philosophers and political radicals gathered — including Klimt, Zweig, Wittgenstein, Freud, Trotsky...
...The saying was popularised by the late Marty Zweig, this author’s first boss and mentor on Wall Street in the 1980s and 1990s. Zweig also coined the phrase: “Don’t fight the tape”....
...At the ornate Café Central on Herrengasse, there must be something in the coffee that makes you half-expect Sigmund Freud or Stefan Zweig to walk in and take a seat, as they did in the Vienna of times gone...
...A Stefan Zweig-reading polyglot, Roy Hodgson coached in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and the UAE before leading England from 2012 to 2016....
...And, in the world of Woolf’s time, Walter Benjamin and Stefan Zweig, among many prominent literary others of a war generation, haunted by exile and despairing, were suicides....
...Zweig’s story is a lesson: borders can go up as well as down. It’s harder now for Europeans to cross frontiers than at any point since 1989....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Mary Queen of Scots, a biography by Stefan Zweig....
...Her choices appear in (mostly) alphabetical order by author, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Stefan Zweig; delightful juxtapositions result....
...Two writers in particular are enjoying something of a revival among British readers: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth....
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