"The World of Yesterday" is an autobiographical literary work created by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was written between 1939 and 1941. It was completed by Zweig when he was forced to go into exile before his death. After Zweig's death, it was published in Stockholm in 1942.
In this work, Zweig integrated his personal destiny with the times. Through the people and events he experienced, he showed the cultural life style of the cities and countries where he lived, recorded the turbulent European society from the eve of the First World War to the Second World War, described his interactions with some world-famous poets, writers, sculptors, and musicians, revealed little-known life anecdotes of world cultural celebrities, and interspersed the author's various delicate thoughts. Zweig started writing from the city of Vienna where he was born and his Jewish family, until he turned 60 in September 1939, when the Second World War broke out. He believed that this was "the complete end of the era for those of us in our sixties."
Reader comments
This book describes the author's life experience and the style of that era in a delicate way, allowing readers to deeply feel the cruelty of war and the changes in the world. Zweig was not only an outstanding writer, but also a witness of an era. His works are full of thoughts about human destiny and are thought-provoking. The characters in the book are vivid, and their actions and choices reflect the background and people's mentality of that special era. This is a book worth reading again and again.
Listening to this book can help you understand the history of Europe in the past
It took me a while to finish reading this book, and I didn't focus on reading during the holidays. A memoir without polish and artistic processing does not make people feel boring.
This book describes the author's life experience and the style of that era in a delicate way, allowing readers to deeply feel the cruelty of war and the changes in the world. Zweig was not only an outstanding writer, but also a witness of an era. His works are full of thoughts about human destiny and are thought-provoking. The characters in the book are vivid, and their actions and choices reflect the background and people's mentality of that special era. This is a book worth reading again and again.
Listening to this book can help you understand the history of Europe in the past
It took me a while to finish reading this book, and I didn't focus on reading during the holidays. A memoir without polish and artistic processing does not make people feel boring.