Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark

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Label

Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark

Title remainder

Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark

Statement of responsibility

Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Creator

• Weidermann, Volker, 1969-

Contributor

• Janeway, Carol Brown

Translator

• Janeway, Carol Brown

Subject

• Authors, Austrian -- Homes and haunts
• Authors, Austrian -- Homes and haunts -- Belgium | Ostend
• Authors, Exiled
• Authors, Exiled -- Belgium | Ostend
• Authors, German -- Homes and haunts
• Authors, German -- Homes and haunts -- Belgium | Ostend
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• Belgium -- Ostend
• Biographies
• Friendship
• Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982
• Manners and customs
• Nineteen thirty-six, A.D
• Nineteen thirty-six, A.D
• Ostend (Belgium) -- Social life and customs
• Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939
• Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 -- Friends and associates
• Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942
• Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 -- Friends and associates
• Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982 -- Friends and associates

Genre

• Biographies

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

"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. 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 home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town--a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and close friend Joseph Roth, himself newly in love. For a moment, they create a fragile paradise. 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"--

Member of

• Ostende

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

838/.91209

Index

no index present

LC call number

PT405

LC item number

.W3513613 2015

Literary form

non fiction