Philip Hensher

Stefan Zweig: the tragedy of a great bad writer

A review of The Impossible Exile by George Prochnik. Contemporaries sniped at his success, but for a Jewish novelist in Austria in the 1930s, the possibilities of remaining a comic figure were few

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  • The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

    George Prochnik

    Grants, pp. 300

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