Summer Before the Dark
Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
Autor*in: Weidermann, Volker
Jahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 176 S.
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- Inhalt:
- A dazzling portrait of Zweig and Roth, and a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936. It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile haven; but as Europe begins to crumble around them, they find themselves trapped on an uncanny kind of holiday, watching the world burn. The award-winning writer and literary critic Volker Weidermann was born in Germany in 1969, and studied political science and German language and literature in Heidelberg and Berlin. He is the cultural editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and lives in Berlin.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Summer Before the Dark
Autor*in: Weidermann, Volker
Übersetzer*in: Janeway, Carol Brown
Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
ISBN: 9781782272373
Kategorie: Sachmedien & Ratgeber, Geschichte, Völker & Länder
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 14 Tage