Ostend
Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
(Sprache: Englisch)
The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction.
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The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction.
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It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria-searched by the police two years earlier-no longer feels like home. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi-estranged close friend Joseph Roth, who is himself about to fall in love. For a moment, they create a fragile haven. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts "the summer before the dark," when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war.Ostend is the true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers, written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language-a dazzling work of historical nonfiction.
(Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)
Autoren-Porträt von Volker Weidermann
Volker Weidermann, geboren 1969 in Darmstadt, studierte Politikwissenschaft und Germanistik in Heidelberg und Berlin. Er ist Literaturredakteur und Feuilletonchef der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung und lebt in Berlin. Mit Lichtjahre. Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von 1945 bis heute feierte er im Frühjahr 2006 einen phänomenalen Erfolg beim Publikum und löste eine leidenschaftliche Debatte im Feuilleton aus.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Volker Weidermann
- 2016, 176 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 19,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Carol Janeway
- Verlag: Pantheon
- ISBN-10: 1101870265
- ISBN-13: 9781101870266
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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