Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viking authors whose books went on Nazi bonfires: Lion Feuchtwanger, Stefan Zweig, Arnold Zweig, Franz Werfel. Other Viking authors: John Steinbeck, Ludwig Bemelmans, Dorothy Parker...
Tragedy and Novelty. Through the months of the phony war Romains worked for the French Government. When France fell, Romains and his wife fled to the U.S. For 18 months they lived quietly in Manhattan, had no intimate friends except Refugee Stefan Zweig and his wife, whose suicide (TIME, March 2, 1942) was also a terrible tragedy to the Romains. In February 1942, Romains went to Mexico City to lecture at the National University. There the Romains stayed "because life is easier, cheaper and it is a new thing to know...
...fragmentary inclusions than to its massive omissions. None of the writing in this anthology has had any pro found influence on the world. Of the books that have really influenced European minds since 1920, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa are not even mentioned; Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf comes under the editors' ban against "fascist elements" in "style and ideology"; books by Lenin and Trotzky (easily the most brilliant writing that has appeared in Russia since the Revolution) and Oswald Spengler...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...