classics digests, reflections and reviews
T. S. Eliot writes that culture is what makes life worth living. Zweig drives that point home with his haunting memoirs, and his own life. He committed suicide together with his wife shortly after finishing his memoirs. European culture had been irrevocably lost to him, and life without culture was not worth living. The act of writing the memoirs was a heroic attempt to preserve European culture, which was preserved […]
Read moreConciseness has always seemed to me to be the most essential problem in art. To fit his destiny to a man so nicely as to leave no vacuum, to inclose him as radiantly as the ember does the fly and yet the while preserve every detail of his being has, of all tasks, ever been the dearest to me. –Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig was an Austrian journalist and playwright, with […]
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