Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the

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Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

Itâ€™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 house in Austriaâ€”searched by the police two years earlierâ€”no longer feels like home. Heâ€™s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi-estranged close friend Joseph Roth, who is himself about to fall in love. For a moment, they create a fragile haven. 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 â€œthe summer before the dark,â€ 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.
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Ostend is the true story of two of the twentieth centuryâ€™s great writers, written with a novelistâ€™s eye for pacing, chronology, and languageâ€”a dazzling work of historical nonfiction.
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(Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Volker Weidermann
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101870273
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfPages	178
PublicationDate	2016-01-26
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2016-01-26
Studio	Pantheon

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

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