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Available
Genres
Collections
Publication
Frankfurt am Main Fischer 1992
Description
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LibraryThing member MSarki
Wonderful writing. Great stories. I learned a lot. I did not already know the details surrounding these events. Glad i read this book.
LibraryThing member thorold
Sternstunden der Menschheit is probably Zwieg's best-known work among German readers - it's a collection of anything from five to fourteen (depending on which edition you read) short sketches of "critical moments" in human history. The subjects are quite freely chosen: political/military moments
The collection seems to be mostly about the sheer pleasure of story-telling: there is no obvious didactic or political purpose. Zweig obviously doesn't have a lot of sympathy with Men of Destiny, but does have a soft spot for heroic failures like Rouget de Lisle, Suter and Capt. Scott. I found his free-verse account of Dostoievsky in front of the firing squad a bit cold and generic, but his sympathy and engagement with the misbehaving elderly geniuses Goethe and Tolstoy is completely convincing. Goethe was already in the 1927 edition, whilst Tolstoy was added in 1940, so this clearly isn't entirely an autobiographical sympathy.
Enjoyable, but a bit fluffy.
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(Lenin's sealed train, Waterloo, the fall of Constantinople), moments of discovery (Scott in the Antarctic, Nuñez de Balboa in Darien, Suter in California), moments of artistic creation (Goethe coming home from Marienbad, Handel writing Messiah, Rouget de Lisle writing the song that would become the Marseillaise), personal moments (Dostoievsky's reprieve from execution, Tolstoy's escape from his wife).The collection seems to be mostly about the sheer pleasure of story-telling: there is no obvious didactic or political purpose. Zweig obviously doesn't have a lot of sympathy with Men of Destiny, but does have a soft spot for heroic failures like Rouget de Lisle, Suter and Capt. Scott. I found his free-verse account of Dostoievsky in front of the firing squad a bit cold and generic, but his sympathy and engagement with the misbehaving elderly geniuses Goethe and Tolstoy is completely convincing. Goethe was already in the 1927 edition, whilst Tolstoy was added in 1940, so this clearly isn't entirely an autobiographical sympathy.
Enjoyable, but a bit fluffy.
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Language
Original publication date
1927
Physical description
18 cm
ISBN
3596205956 / 9783596205950