How an eccentric doctor created a national treasure.
Though he’s now largely unknown, for many Europeans of my generation he was the most important writer of our time. Were we right about him?
The famed elegist of turn-of-the-century Vienna has sparked renewed interest. Is it because he sustains the dream—or, rather, the fantasy—of a Europe that never was. . .
The renowned Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig, in comfortable exile during World War II, committed suicide in Brazil in February 1942. Why?