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Author Weidermann, Volker, 1969-

Title Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark / Volker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon, [2016].
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  838.9 W42    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  838.912 WEIDERMANN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  838.912 WEIDERMANN    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition
Description 163 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Authors, German -- Homes and haunts -- Belgium -- Ostend.
Authors, Austrian -- Homes and haunts -- Belgium -- Ostend.
Authors, Exiled -- Belgium -- Ostend.
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 -- Friends and associates.
Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 -- Friends and associates.
Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982 -- Friends and associates.
Ostend (Belgium) -- Social life and customs.
Nineteen thirty-six, A.D.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982. (OCoLC)fst01717990
Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939. (OCoLC)fst00049252
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942. (OCoLC)fst00046408
Authors, Austrian -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst00821817
Authors, Exiled. (OCoLC)fst00821997
Authors, German -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst00822060
Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Nineteen thirty-six, A.D. (OCoLC)fst01037832
Belgium -- Ostend. (OCoLC)fst01206356
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Added Author Janeway, Carol Brown, translator.
Added Title Ostend. English
ISBN 9781101870266 (hardback)
1101870265 (hardback)
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