Word: stephans
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...Stephan Zweig has written a fascinating and inspiring biography, lacking the impersonal and critical faculty that would make it great. He is too near his subject to see him in perspective, too carried away by his personality to judge him as anything but a hero of an "heroic biography". The translation of Eden and Cedar Paul is often annoying with its endless inverted sentences, its florid and over elaborate style, its frequent tendency to melodramatize prose, which must have been stately and flowing in the original. But Roman Rolland is a book to be read, and reread as an engrossing...