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A journey of reckoning and renewal, this story of one family's history and its future dreams is by no means a traditional memoir-rather, it is an examination of the individual imagination as a catalyst for social change from a Guggenheim Fellow and master essayistWhatever the ideological slant of our information feeds, nowadays we all share a sense of binge-watching the apocalypse. Facing so much uncertainty, we need a language for thinking ab...

A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

«Non avrei mai creduto che a sessant'anni mi sarei trovato a sedere in un piccolo villaggio brasiliano, servito da una giovane nera scalza, a decine di migliaia di chilometri da quella che una volta era la mia vita: libri, concerti, amici, conversazioni.» Chi scrive non è un antropologo, un medico filantropo o un cineasta d'avanguardia. È Stefan Zweig, l'autore straordinariamente prolifico, il «sovvertitore dei sensi», l'intellettuale celebrat...

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An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler's rise to power, this celebr...

Um 1930 war Stefan Zweig zum weltweit meistübersetzten lebenden Schriftsteller avanciert. Doch dieser Erfolg des 1881 geborenen Wieners wurde schon bald überschattet vom Machtantritt Hitlers. Der Kosmopolit verließ den alten Kontinent und ließ sich 1941 in dem von ihm als "Land der Zukunft" gepriesenen Brasilien nieder. "Endlich ein Ruhepunkt", hoffte er nach seiner Ankunft in der tropischen Stadt Petrópolis. Ein halbes Jahr später, am 23. Feb...

By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies became instant bestsellers, and his cultural patronage, his generosity, and his literary connections, were legendary. In 1934, following Hitler's rise to power, Zweig left Vienna for England, then New York, and, finally, Petrópolis, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. With...

A moving and original examination of Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig's fall from world fame in the 1920s and early 1930s to exile and death by suicide in 1942. Builds on the resurgence of interest in the author in recent years, from the translations of his work published by Pushkin Press to Wes Anderson's film "The Grand Budapest Hotel".

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**Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography**Now in paperback, the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the inspiration behind The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's award-winning film By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of a...

A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the co...

Kozmopolit sözcügü iki dünya savasi arasindaki Avrupada, yabanci düsmanlari, fasistler ve Yahudi karsitlari icin kirli bir kelimeydi, ancak ayni zamanda bir kod adiydi. Kozmopolitlik hic kimsede dev Viyanali yazar ve hümanist Stefan Zweigin kisiligindeki kadar karizmatik sekilde cisimlesmemistir. Naziler Avusturyayi isgal ettiginde Zweig anayurdundan sürülmüstü. Kendisi gectigimiz asirda dünya edebiyatindaki hakli yerinden de sürgün edildi. Ge...

Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem-the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah-Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation, as a Freud-like interpre...

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva AwardAn innovative work of biography that traces the lasting impact of the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering American psychologist James Jackson Putnam. In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to "Putnam Camp"-the eminent American psychologist James Jackson Putnam's family retreat in the Adirondacks. "Of all the things that I have experienced in America, this is by fa...