Sofia / world today news/ The biography of the Austrian classic Stefan Zweig is already on the English-language market, reported the British “Telegraph”, quoted by “Lira”.
The book was published in German back in 2006 under the title “Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig”. The author of the biography is the Austrian researcher Oliver Matuszek. The book is published by the publishing house “Pushkin Press”. Matuszek, who is the writer’s biographer, is convinced that little is still known about one of the best European writers of the 20th century.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna. His family is Jewish. His father is a rich manufacturer. Zweig did not enter the barracks because he was written off as “sick”. His first book, a collection of poems, was published in 1901. He made rapid progress in the fields of journalism and biographical research and developed the interests and style that would make him the writer the general public knew. When World War I began, Zweig left for Switzerland. After the war, he married a divorced mother of two. They settled in Salzburg. They have no children of their own. The golden period for Stefan Zweig’s work was the 20s of the last century. “Sales of his books often broke records within a week of their publication,” Matuszek wrote in the book.
Zweig is a master of the psychological novel. He became popular with his essays and his cultural-historical biographical works. But after the beginning of the persecution of the Jews and the rise of National Socialism, he fled to England. He was accused of not writing in “proper” German. A search of his house by the police, under the pretext of looking for weapons, prompts him to pack up and leave for London. His wife Frederique left with him. They later divorce. Zweig remarried – to his secretary Lotte Altmann. There is no information about her in the book and the nature of their relationship is unclear. It’s not even described how they meet. Soon the writer began to suffer from depression. First he traveled to New York, then to Rio de Janeiro and finally to the Brazilian city of Petropolis.
On February 23, 1942, a maid found Zweig and his wife dead in their bed. A letter was found in which they explained that they had committed suicide. The reason is “the death of culture in Europe caused by the brown plague” (National Socialism). Stefan Zweig is the author of the magnificent “Amok”, “An Impatient Heart”, “A Chess Novel”, “The Intoxication of Change” and many other famous stories.
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