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“The great Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, who killed himself in 1942, left behind a memoir called 'The World of Yesterday.' It is a heartbreaking book about a Vienna that, in retrospect, didn't stand a chance.”
Discussed
“So my sense is that Vienna, before World War I, was like that. That's certainly the impression I get from reading Stefan Zweig's 'The World of Yesterday.' I mean, there was a lot of disruption in the visual arts especially; you know, Egon Schiele's extremely intense and very sexualized paintings, which landed him in prison for a bit.”
Discussed
“This is what Stefan Zweig writes about 'The World of Yesterday'—even more so in retrospect, because, of course, post-war Vienna, 1918, was so appalling, anything before then looked like a golden age.”
Discussed
“Here is a passage from 'The World of Yesterday' by Stefan Zweig, which he finished just before he and his wife killed themselves in 1942: 'In its liberal idealism, the 19th century was honestly convinced that it was on the straight and unfailing path toward being the best of all worlds; earlier eras, with their wars, famines, and revolts, were”
Discussed
“Um, I mean that's one of my favorite books, Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, including the descriptions of what it was like trying to have sex in pre-First World War Vienna.”