Saturday, August 09, 2014

So true …

… "The Impossible Exile" review: Stefan Zweig's Overdue Revival | New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



Zweig's biographical essays should not only be reissued, but studied. Their subjects always come across as persons, not catalogues.

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  1. The podcast I recorded with George Prochnik, the author of The Impossible Exile, is one of my faves: http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-bildung-stories

    I have a number of his biographical essays on my Zweig-shelf, but I've only read his fiction and his autobiography so far:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/chimeraobscura/14078780867

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