Blogs about: Stefan Zweig
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Instant Success or Long Labor?
I’m taking this down more as a reminder to myself than to any of you— To steel himself and to bring before his eyes the jeopardy to which an artist is exposed when he betrays his art for t… more →
Hidden Connections
Schachnovelle
shirhashirim wrote 3 weeks ago: During my recent visit to Regensburg in Germany I bought a copy of Schachnovelle by German author St … more →
Journey into the Past
1streading wrote 1 month ago: “There you are!” So begins the latest Zweig novella to be made available in English by translator An … more →
The semi-autobiography of a semi-prophet
trewisms wrote 2 months ago: New reading list: Signpost books, those with place names in the title. I’ve finished Zweig … more →
Glimpses of characters
trewisms wrote 2 months ago: Zweig is still slipping elusively through the pages of his own autobiography. His sketches of his fa … more →
A book with no characters
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trewisms wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes, while I’m waiting for a bus or something, I think this: would it be possible to wri … more →
The truth and Brasília, 1: Land of the Future
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john wrote 3 months ago: This series of posts springs from three sources. First, my research for “The truth and change … more →
Kasparov and Karpov resume their battles, White King and Red Queen.
jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 3 months ago: Chess masters Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov shake hands before an earlier match. The two masters … more →
"Human Smoke" Book Review: A Very Different Take On History
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Alexander K wrote 3 months ago: To most of society the case of World War II is close. The Axis powers of Japan, Italy and Nazi Germa … more →
An idea from Stefan Zweig
diaryofarecoveredbulimic wrote 4 months ago: As if nature puts a piece of chaos in each of our souls, driving us as madmen with the desire to reu … more →
Instant Success or Long Labor?
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hiddenconnections wrote 6 months ago: I’m taking this down more as a reminder to myself than to any of you— To steel himself a … more →
Artichoke as Metaphor for Life
hiddenconnections wrote 6 months ago: Stefan Zweig embodied for Europe a conception of intellectual work as abstract and spiritual, as div … more →
The Phallus of Balzac; The Balzacian Metaphor
hiddenconnections wrote 6 months ago: [Balzac] procured a stick, as thick as a club and encrusted with turquoises, about which he spread t … more →
19th Century Pickup Artists
hiddenconnections wrote 6 months ago: …Among the young people of my own age I met a group of swaggerers who strutted along with head … more →
Book review: "The Post Office Girl" by Stefan Zweig
chesilbeach wrote 7 months ago: In the bleak years following World War One, Christine is one of the lucky few with a job in an econo … more →
Collaboration, and Taking Sides, Chichester, and the Duchess Theatre London, May 2009
markronan wrote 7 months ago: These two plays by Ronald Harwood, dealing with how Germany’s Nazi regime affected the lives o … more →
[197] Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
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Matthew wrote 8 months ago: “Anyone who has suffered from a mania remains at risk forever, and with chess sickness (even i … more →
Translation fest in the Guardian
exchangesjournal wrote 10 months ago: Both Three Percent and the Literary Saloon have expressed delight and amazement at the suddenly incr … more →
I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: So in case you haven’t heard, the world’s economy is not doing so well, and the closer w … more →
"The Damned" Vintage Paperback
aziomedia wrote 1 year ago: “Fourteen brilliant stories of the vast and restless passions surging within the depths of the … more →
