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Stefan Zweig

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Austrian author (born 1881, Vienna) known for psychologically incisive novellas and acclaimed biographies; exiled after the rise of Nazism and died in Petrópolis, Brazil, in 1942.

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer from a Jewish family, a cosmopolitan figure and one of the most translated authors of the 1920s–1930s. He wrote major novellas (Schachnovelle/The Royal Game, Brief einer Unbekannten, Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) and influential biographies (Joseph Fouché, Marie Antoinette, Magellan). After the Anschluss he lived in exile in the UK and the Americas; he died by suicide in 1942 in Petrópolis, Brazil.

Three reviews explore Zweig’s psychological precision and historical gaze: The Royal Game as a metaphor for Europe’s ruin, Confusion of Feelings as three intense novellas of desire and revelation, and The World of Yesterday as a lucid memoir of a cosmopolitan life shattered by nationalism and exile.

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