Summer Before the Dark [electronic resource] : Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
Weidermann, Volker2016
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A dazzling portrait of Zweig and Roth, and a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936.
It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.
Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile haven; but as Europe begins to crumble around them, they find themselves trapped on an uncanny kind of holiday, watching the world burn.
The award-winning writer and literary critic Volker Weidermann was born in Germany in 1969, and studied political science and German language and literature in Heidelberg and Berlin. He is the cultural editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and lives in Berlin.
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Weidermann, Volker, AuthorBrown Janeway, Carol, Translator
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[Place of publication not identified] : Pushkin Press, 2016
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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The award-winning writer and literary critic Volker Weidermann was born in Germany in 1969, and studied political science and German language and literature in Heidelberg and Berlin. He is the cultural editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and lives in Berlin.
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9781782272373
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English
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2800843
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