The World of Yesterday

461 pages

English language

Published May 3, 1964

ISBN:: 978-0-8032-5224-0
Goodreads:: 629429

(2 reviews)

The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before they both committed suicide in February 1942. The book was first published in Stockholm (1942), as Die Welt von Gestern. It was first published in English in April 1943 by Viking Press. In 2011, Plunkett Lake Press reissued it in eBook form. In 2013, the University of Nebraska Press published a translation by the noted British translator Anthea Bell.The book describes life in Vienna at the start of the 20th century with detailed …

The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European (German title Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers) is the memoir of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It has been called the most famous book on the Habsburg Empire. He started writing it in 1934 when, anticipating Anschluss and Nazi persecution, he uprooted himself from Austria to England and later to Brazil. He posted the manuscript, typed by his second wife Lotte Altmann, to the publisher the day before they both committed suicide in February 1942. The book was first published in Stockholm (1942), as Die Welt von Gestern. It was first published in English in April 1943 by Viking Press. In 2011, Plunkett Lake Press reissued it in eBook form. In 2013, the University of Nebraska Press published a translation by the noted British translator Anthea Bell.The book describes life in Vienna at the start of the 20th century with detailed anecdotes. It depicts the dying days of Austria-Hungary under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, including the system of education and the sexual ethics prevalent at the time. Zweig also describes the stability of Viennese society after centuries of Habsburg rule.

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mrbonsoir reviewed Le monde d'hier by Stefan Zweig

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5 stars

So far the biggest smash in my face I got from a book (I mean by reading it, not taking the book in my face). The best is to read it as they are are so many things to tell about it.

A real European story, there is the temptation to make comparison with our time, but I haven't see many examples of human beings learning from our past mistakes...

Anyway, there is almost one thing to remain per pages, for the best what the author is saying about the people in Paris or Berlin, or what he witness of the work of artists and for the worst the ugliness of the human nature.

I wonder how I didn't read that bool earlier.

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April 29, 2022