Recuerdos y encuentros

In this collection of powerful elegies, tributes, and remembrances, Stefan Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of some of the most significant figures in the European diaspora that reached its height in 1939. Many of those remembered and celebrated here project a cast a long shadow over Zweig's own life: Verhaeren, Rolland, Nietzsche, Roth, Mahler, Rilke, and Freud, among many others. Zweig's farewells, memories and declarations of gratitude demonstrate the ardent pan-Europeanism of him and his treasured and rich border-crossing friendships. Zweig convinces us that literature and, in general, art are nothing more than a long dialogue, a sharing beyond life and death.