Zweig, Stefan
Zweig's best-known works of fiction are Ungeduld des Herzens (1938, tr. Beware of Pity, 1939, repr. 2006) and Schachnovelle (1944, tr. The Royal Game, 1944). He also wrote many biographies, which were based on psychological interpretation. The subjects of these include Marie Antoinette, Erasmus, Mary Queen of Scots, Magellan, Balzac, Verlaine, and Freud. Zweig's historical perception is best seen in Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928, tr. The Tide of Fortune, 1940). Long out of fashion and largely out of print, Zweig's work experienced a resurgence of interest in the 21st cent. when several of his books were retranslated and reprinted.
See his autobiography (and his last book, completed 1941 in Brazil), The World of Yesterday (1943) and his Collected Stories (2013) biographies by D. A. Prater (1972), E. Allday (1972), and O. Matuschek (2011) G. Prochnik, The Impossible Exile (2014).
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