Introduction
A Stefan Zweig Revival? - Birger Vanwesenbeeck
Stefan Zweig's Drama Jeremias in Context - John Warren
"That Voice in the Darkness!": Technologies of the Tropical Talking
Cure in Stefan Zweig's Der Amokläufer and Verwirrung der Gefühle -
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Narrating Alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma
of Redemption - Robert Weldon Whalen
Stefan Zweig and the Concept of World Literature - Mark H.
Gelber
Landscape, "Heimat," and Artistic Production: Stefan Zweig's
Introduction to E. M. Lilien: Sein Werk - Richard V. Benson
Stefan Zweig's Non-fictional Prose in Exile: Mastery of the
European Genre of "Kunstprosa" - Klaus Weissenberger
The Writer's Political Obligations in Exile: The Case of Stefan
Zweig - Robert Kelz
True to Himself: Stefan Zweig's Visit to Argentina in September
1936 - Darien J. Davis
Exile and Liminality in "A Land of the Future": Charlotte and
Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941-March 1942 - Marlen Eckl
Stefan Zweig's Concept of Brazil in the Context of German-Jewish
Emigration - Klemens Renoldner
Stefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile - Jeffrey B. Berlin
Notes on the Contributors
Index
This volume is an important contribution to Stefan Zweig
scholarship, attempting to account for the author's persistent
worldwide significance. [The editors] bring together a collection
of essays that expose the narrowness of the trenchant critiques of
what Michael Hofmann in the London Review of Books of 28 January
2010 called this 'purveyor of Trivialliteratur,' and they rightly
expand the context of Zweig's reception beyond Europe. With the
ambitious objective of 'focusing on the totality of Zweig's
literary output' (p. 4), the book covers most of the phases and
genres of Zweig's life and work . . . . The best essays in this
collection plainly concede many of the flaws and problems
associated with Stefan Zweig's life and work, while understanding
that the context for these criticisms has shifted, substantially
nullifying their potency as critical shibboleths in the
twenty-first century and showing very clearly why Zweig demands to
be re-evaluated in the light of the contemporary re-evaluations of
modernism, authorship, and literary value.
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*
This volume of essays provides strong arguments for the legitimacy
of Zweig studies . . . .
*JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES*
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