Summer before the dark : Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

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Label

Summer before the dark : Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

Title remainder

Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

Statement of responsibility

Volker Weidermann ; translated by Carol Brown Janeway

Creator

• Weidermann, Volker, 1969-

Contributor

• Janeway, Carol Brown

Author

• Weidermann, Volker, 1969-

Translator

• Janeway, Carol Brown

Subject

• Exiles -- Europe -- Fiction
• Jewish authors -- Austria -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 -- Fiction
• Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 -- Fiction
• Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

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 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 holiday, in exile, watching the world burn. In Summer Before the Dark, Weidermann lyrically recounts a pivotal time in our cultural history, 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

Cataloging source

NLE

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult