Saturday, January 31, 2009

High-stakes literature ...

... The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig.

To his eternal credit, the composer Richard Strauss, when told that the Nazis had ordered Zweig's name be taken off the program for an opera of his that Zweig had written the libretto for, insisted that Zweig's name be put back or that his own be taken off as well.

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