Relatively short book. Beautifully written. Summer 1936. Stefan Zweig, among others, can read the writing on the wall. Especially when Germany starts Relatively short book. Beautifully written. Summer 1936. Stefan Zweig, among others, can read the writing on the wall. Especially when Germany starts burning their books, displaying them next to Hitler's Mein Kampf, losing their German publishers. Ostend is a way stop while they try to figure what to do next. Where to go.
Zweig tries to take Roth under his wing, but not much you can do when people like to drink too much. Although he does get him a new suit and does some writing with him.
Ostend, for one summer before the war, becomes a writers' colony. And they have many beautiful and lively discussions over drinks and food in cafes and bistros.
My copy was an ARC, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, published by Pantheon in January....more