El mundo de ayer

Stefan Zweig witnessed, against his will, the most terrible defeat of reason and the wildest triumph of brutality in the chronicle of time. As an Austrian, a Jew, a writer, a humanist and a pacifist, he found himself at the epicenter of the violent seismic shocks that shook European soil during the first half of the 20th century. And he testified to it in this book, before his memory was lost in obscurity. He wrote from abroad, isolated, in the midst of war, hoping to convey to succeeding generations even a shred of truth from the collapsed fabric of an age that saw unsuspected feats technically and intellectually while retreating a millennium morally. . Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was undoubtedly one of the most prominent intellectual figures in brilliant Vienna in the first third of the 20th century. "Yesterday's World" describes the fate of a generation overwhelmed by doom, it is a period portrait of a world that no longer exists.