Zweig

[ zwahyg, swahyg; German tsvahyk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Ar·nold [ahr, -n, uh, ld, ahr, -nawlt], 1887–1968, German novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
Ste·fan [stef, -, uh, n, -ahn, shte, -fahn], 1881–1942, Austrian dramatist, critic, biographer, and novelist.

Zweig

/ tsvaik /

ZweigArnold18871968MGermanWRITING: novelist Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1887–1968, German novelist, famous for his realistic war novel The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
ZweigStefan18811942MAustrianWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: essayistWRITING: poet Stefan (ˈʃtɛfan). 1881–1942, Austrian novelist, dramatist, essayist, and poet

Were you flipping through a Zweig novel and suddenly got inspired to write the film?

One feels the same sense of dislocation reading Zweig, his world is indeed a “world of yesterday”.

Zweig was born into an affluent Jewish family in Vienna in 1881.

Many authors are lauded for successfully capturing the zeitgeist but Zweig outdid them all.

“Reading Stefan Zweig, he talks about the beginning of the First World War,” he said.

Zweig has steered his course skilfully between the dangers of archaism and anachronism.

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