Vermicular Dither
Michael Hofmann, 28 January 2010
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell.
Pushkin Press, 474 pp., £20,1 906548 12 9 Show More
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell.
Pushkin Press, 474 pp., £20,
“... of the revolution.Further west, in Princeton, or much further, in Pacific Palisades, Thomas Mann and his family spent diverting evenings – this in 1939 – debating which of Zweig, Ludwig, Feuchtwanger and Remarque was the worst writer. Emil Ludwig himself, in an obituary, wrote that none of Zweig’s writings had affected him in a way that could ... ”