A memoir to treasure. A wonderful evocation by one of Austria's and Europe's finest writers of a lost world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire destroyed in the Great War. Zweig is the essence of the best in European culture. He knew all the great writers of his day about whom he recalls with eloquence. His world was to be destroyed by the Nazis and his exiled wanderings were to end tragically. To read this book is to feel human.
(David Graham - bwl 55 Winter 2011 ) |
