{"id":44040,"date":"2024-12-25T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44040"},"modified":"2024-12-25T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:46:08","slug":"rudiger-gorner-in-the-future-of-yesterday-a-life-of-stefan-zweig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44040","title":{"rendered":"R\u00fcdiger G\u00f6rner, \u201eIn the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2018<em>In the Future of Yesterday<\/em>&nbsp;provides a delightful appreciation of his life and work.\u2019<\/strong><br><em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018R\u00fcdiger G\u00f6rner\u2019s lively biography of Stefan Zweig marshals the fruits of an academic career spent thinking deeply about modern European literature and history. His erudition is lightly worn and his digestible&nbsp;<em>essais&nbsp;<\/em>explore the overlaps Zweig\u2019s reading, writing, and travel. Not merely concerned with the events of Zweig\u2019s life, G\u00f6rner returns to his literary texts to pose new questions about his subject and the nature of biography itself. Contextualising Zweig\u2019s correspondence and diaries, as well as his fictional and biographical works, within a broader network of modern European writers, <em>In the Future of Yesterday&nbsp;<\/em>is an intellectual history grounded in Zweig\u2019s personal life and works that yields indispensable insights into this most ambitious and prolific of writers.\u2019<\/strong><br>Ian Ellison, University of Oxford, author of <em>Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018A capstone on R\u00fcdiger G\u00f6rner\u2019s already impressive scholarly work, <em>In the Future of Yesterday <\/em>is a carefully researched study that eloquently advances new insights in the life of Stefan Zweig.&nbsp; With an ear for the right word and an instinct for human tragedy, G\u00f6rner\u2019s meticulous analysis of Zweig\u2019s letters, his diaries, and some of his characteristic works greatly enriches the critical debate about the latter\u2019s world-wide legacy. Full of interesting details on Zweig\u2019s quest for freedom, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of Europe\u2019s most translated writer of the interwar period.\u2019<\/strong><br>Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the Future of Yesterday<\/em> offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, delving into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A world traveller from the outset, Zweig liked to uproot himself \u2013 but whether he stayed in London, New York, or eventually Brazil, his literary baggage continued to contain the flair of fin de si\u00e8cle Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking anew at Zweig\u2019s influential time in England and offering fresh insights into his final years in the United States and Brazil, G\u00f6rner discusses Zweig\u2019s prolific literary output in relation to his life and treats his political views on Europe, Zionism, and the world order with great depth and scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, <em>In the Future of Yesterday<\/em> shows Zweig as a towering figure of a form of writing that was bursting with life and was written in the knowledge that there can only be a future if we remain conscious of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>R\u00dcDIGER G\u00d6RNER<\/strong>&nbsp;was professor of German with comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London. The founder of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and the founding director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, his books include biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, and Oskar Kokoschka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors: R\u00fcdiger G\u00f6rner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Format: HARDBACK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Category: History and Biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published Date: OCTOBER 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pages: 391<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Haus Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/In-the-Future-of-Yesterday.jpg?fit=995%2C1523&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52834,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52834","url_meta":{"origin":44040,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Spatial Worlds of Medieval Central Europe: Real, Imagined, and Conceptual&#8221;, Budapest, 19\u201321 May 2027","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"6. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Following successful conferences in Budapest (2014), Olomouc (2016), Zagreb (2018), Gda\u0144sk (2021), Bratislava (2023), and Munich (2025), the Seventh Biennial Conference of MECERN (http:\/\/mecern.eu\/) will focus on spatial worlds in medieval history, especially in Central Europe. 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