Prochnik, George

[2012]: New York Review Books, New York

[1].

"Introduction" in Stefan Zweig. Confusion. The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. [Verwirrung der Gefühle. Private Aufzeichnungen des Geheimrates R. von D.]. Translated by Anthea Bell. xix/153p. Introduction by George Prochnik. "Introduction", pp. vii-xix

[2014]: Other Press, New York

[2].

The Impossible Exile. Stefan Zweig at the End of the World. 390p. Illustrated with 29 photographs. Frontispiece: Stefan Zweig on a bus in New York City, 1941. Photograph by Kurt Severin

Contents:

[1].

Introduction, pp. (1)-28. Notes, pp. 375-376

[2].

Chapter One. Odysseus to Oedipus, pp. (29)-53. Notes, pp. 376-378

[3].

Chapter Two. The Beggars and the Bridge, pp. (54)-82. Notes, pp. 378-379

[4].

Chapter Three. People of the Book, pp. (83)-116. Notes, pp. 379-380

[5].

Chapter Four. Traveling Womb, pp. (117)-141. Notes, pp. 380-381

[6].

Chapter Five . The Reunion, pp. (142)-167. Notes, pp. 381-382

[7].

Chapter Six. To the Coffeehouse, pp. (168)-197. Notes, p. 382

[8].

Chapter Seven. Global Roulette, pp. (198)-225. Notes, p. 383

[9].

Chapter Eight. Educational Debts, pp. (226)-252. Notes, pp. 383-384

[10].

Chapter Nine. The Other Side, pp. (253)-267. Notes, p. 385

[11].

Chapter Ten. Gardens in Wartime, pp. (268)-292. Notes, p. 385

[12].

Chapter Eleven. The Arcadian Exile, pp. (293)-317. Notes, p. 385

[13].

Chapter Twelve. Refuge, pp. (318)-349. Notes, p. 386

[14].

Epilogue, pp. (351)-368. Notes, pp. 386-387

[15].

Acknowledgments, pp. (369)-371

[16].

Notes, pp. (372)-387

[17].

Photo Captions and Credits, pp. (388)-390

Reviews:

[1].

Aciman, Andre. "A Story told in Twilight" in The Wall Street Journal [New York], 24-25 May 2014, Books, p. C7. Contains a photograph of Stefan Zweig on the steps of the New York Public Library in 1942 [sic = 1941]

[2].

Gladstone, Bill. "Renewed Interest in Austrian-Jewish Author Stefan Zweig" in The Canadian Jewsish News [Concord, Ontario / Montreal, Quebec], 26 June 2014

[3].

Muhlstein, Anka. "His Exile Was Intolerable" in The New York Review of Books [New York], 71:8 [8 May 2014], pp. 13-15. A discussion of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik and the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson. This review article was translated from the French by Antony Shugaar

[4].

Rohter, Larry. "Austrian Novelist Rises Anew" in The New York Times [New York], Thursday 29 May 2014, The Arts, pp. C1, C4. Contains a discussion of George Prochnik's new biography of Stefan Zweig, The Impossible Exile. Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, and Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Mention is also made of the brilliant English translations of Zweig's works by Anthea Bell, Laurent Seksik's recent novel The Last Days [Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig] which is an account of Zweig's final six months, and there are also quotations from an interview with the Brazilian writer Alberto Dines. Illustrated with a photograph of Stefan Zweig and one of Ralph Fiennes [who looks like Stefan Zweig] in The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is set in Europe between the wars, the milieu of much of Stefan Zweig's work