Contents
Preliminaries, or How to Approach Stefan Zweig: A Writer from the Past for Our Time
Portrait of a Writer as a Young Man, or Early (Poetic) Orientations in Vienna and Elsewhere
The Virtue of Restlessness
Early Days for Fiction
Keeping Up with ‘Life’
Jeremiah in the First World War
Tracing Demons, or How to Approach Greatness
Towards European Transnationalism
The Torch of Eros, or The Confusion of a Reluctant Modernist
Political Ridge Walks
Life Amidst Crises: Stefan Zweig at and around Fifty
The Uprooting of an Austrian, or Fascist Trauma and Early Exile
How to Become an Alien and Experiencing England
Autographs, Collections, and Other Approaches to World Literature
Zweig, the Transatlantic Explorer
Pity about Pity
Clarissa, Montaigne, Balzac: A Fragmentary Trio
Austria in Brazil: Arriving at the Final Address
Chess with Time, or Yesterday’s Checkmate
Notes on Zweig’s Legacy
Words of Thanks
Notes
Bibliography