The world of yesterday
The World of Yesterday , with the subtitle “Memories of a European”, is an autobiographical work by Stefan Zweig . The book was written shortly before Zweig's death in the last years of his exile (from 1939 to 1941) and was published posthumously in 1942 in cooperation with the publishers Hamish-Hamilton London and Bermann-Fischer Verlag AB in Stockholm.
To the work
The book is characterized by the personal closeness that the reader gets to the first-person narrator through the finely woven literary structure. The work combines an objective view of the culture of old Europe with its focus on Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . The work partly contains personal interior views of the first-person narrator. The extent to which Zweig presented his personal life in this book is controversial. Zweig describes the culture, the fashion, the life of the youth, the educational system, the sexual morality and the value system of the society.
Current issues
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The world of yesterday. Memories of a European. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main (1952 and) 1982, ISBN 978-3-10-097047-3 .
- as paperback (Frankfurt am Main 1993): ISBN 978-3-596-21152-4 .
- The world of yesterday. Memories of a European . With an afterword and chronological table by Rüdiger Görner. Artemis & Winkler (Winkler World Literature Blue Series), Düsseldorf / Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-538-06938-1 .
- The world of yesterday. Memories of a European . Edited and commented by Oliver Matuschek. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002409-1 .
literature
- Donald A. Prater : Stefan Zweig and the world of yesterday . Lecture in the Vienna City Hall on February 20, 1992. Picus, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85452-329-7 .
Web links
- The world of yesterday in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Jürgen Schüddekopf: "The world of yesterday" . In: Die Zeit No. 5/1946 of March 21, 1946.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gero von Wilpert / Adolf Gühring: First editions of German poetry - A bibliography on German literature 1600–1990 . 2nd Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1992, p. 1710-1715 ( wikisource.org ).