Brazil: A Land of the Future

Stefan Zweig

Ariadne Press, 2000 - 259 pages

The Austrian poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and essayist, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), committed suicide partly in despair over the rise of the Third Reich; but in the late 1930s, Zweig traveled to Brazil and wrote about its cities, history, economy, and culture.

Table des matières

• Introduction: 5
• History: 17
• Economy: 73

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Vienna, the prolific Zweig was a poet in his early years. In the 1920s, he achieved fame with the many biographies he wrote of famous people including Balzac, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Freud. Erasmus with whom he closely identified, was the subject of a longer biography. He also wrote the novellas Amok (1922) and The Royal Game (1944). As Nazism spread, Zweig, a Jew, fled to the United States and then to Brazil. He hoped to start a new life there, but the haunting memory of Nazism, still undefeated, proved too much for him. He died with his wife in a suicide pact.

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: Brazil: A Land of the Future; Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought: Translation series
• Auteur: Stefan Zweig
• Éditeur: Ariadne Press, 2000
• Original provenant de: l'Université de Virginie
• Numérisé: 10 avr. 2008
• ISBN: 1572410833, 9781572410831
• Longueur: 259 pages