Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND AND THE ISLES-Stefan Zweig-Viking ($3.50). Unlike most figures of her time, Mary Stuart has become a historical mystery, not because of a lack of information about her, but because of a superabundance of contradictory evidence. Centre of controversy all her life, subject of inquiries and investigations, her reputation was darkened and defended by contemporary partisans who did not hesitate to employ torture and forgery to establish her guilt or innocence. To the confusions bred by religious antagonisms, Scottish and English national rivalries added more contradictions, until the personality of Mary Stuart was obscured, even...
PLAYTHINGS or TIME-Arnold Zweig- Viking...
Like many a European writer of his generation, Germany's Arnold Zweig has written of the years of peace with an imagination dominated by visions and fears of war, of the years of war with an imagination dominated by dreams and hopes of peace. Last week readers who recalled his powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief...
...Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), America's John Dos Passes (Three Soldiers) have all added to the slowly mounting testimony as to what degree of murder war actually is. Last week another U. S. author added his docket to the record...
...Zweig is neither Catholic nor Protestant so his approach is reasonably objective and his work is free from the heavy touch of axe-grinding. His perceptive style is devoid of superfluities and the work is one of stimulating scholarships...