Stefan Zweig

[joanhollloway]

And as we were young we told ourselves: it will be our world, the world of our dreams, better and more humane.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (via itallfeltright)

[nicholasgunner-blog]

The Zweig Collection at SUNY Fredonia is an important archive of letters, manuscripts and books by and about Stefan Zweig.

[manufacturedeslettres-blog]

L’oeuvre de Stefan Zweig entre dans le domaine public

L’occasion de relire les grands classiques de cet immense écrivain autrichien qui se suicide en 1942, désespéré par le destin de l’Europe.

[wordswithinyou]

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

Stefan Zweig (via wordswithinyou)

[lacalaveracatrina]

Zweig, standing, with his brother Alfred in Vienna, circa 1900.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Beyond question she must be dreaming; and what limits are there to a girl’s dreams, those streamlets of white cloud floating aimlessly in blue, and flashing red and gold when evening falls? Nothing will seem to her improbable or impossible, I thought. A volcano of passionate inquiry was raging within her; such intense spark was awakened in her eyes.

Stefan Zweig, The Flower Snared (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lediteursingulier]

Stefan Zweig - Le Joueur d’échecs

Delachaud et Niestlé, 1946

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Happiness with its artless dreams lay behind her, a relic of the past, discarded like a worn-out gown.

Stefan Zweig, Burning Secret (via violentwavesofemotion)

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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Then she looked at me. Like one who is gaping for want of air, I pressed my hand on my heart and sensed its painful throbbing. But pain and pleasure, alarm, disgust or concern, were not isolated and detached feelings. They were integrally fused, so that the sum of my sensations was that I lived and breathed and felt. It was the simplest, the most primitive of feelings, ones that I had not experienced for ages, and it went to my head like wine.

Stefan Zweig, Transfiguration (via violentwavesofemotion)

[niewview]

A piece from a new book about how exiled German writers have influenced German-speaking writers abroad. Renate Ahrens talks about the effect Zweig’s Chess Story had on her when she read it at a young age. Translated for the writers’ charity PEN International.

[b7even]

“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in...

[the-two-germanys]

E.M. Lilien: Sein Werk mit Einer Einleitung von Stefan Zweig Ephraim Mose Lilien Leipzig: Schuster und Loeffler, 1903

[the-two-germanys]

Ex Libris E.M. Lilien: Sein Werk mit Einer Einleitung von Stefan Zweig Ephraim Mose Lilien Leipzig: Schuster und Loeffler, 1903

[bookandi]

28/11/1881 Nasce Stefan Zweig, escritor austríaco.

[fragmentosnomadas]

Sabemos por experiencia que es mucho más fácil reconstruir los hechos de una época que su atmósfera espiritual. Ésta no se encuentra sedimentada en los acontecimientos oficiales, sino más bien en pequeños episodios personales. Stefan Zweig. El mundo de ayer

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Stefan Zweig