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BALZAC (404 pp.)-Stefan Zweig, translated by William & Dorothy Rose -Viking...
When Austrian-born Biographer Stefan Zweig committed suicide (together with his wife) in Brazil almost five years ago, he had been working on Balzac for a decade, referred to it as "the large Balzac" that was to become his magnum opus. Now published, his passionately sympathetic portrait of the prolific French novelist is clearly handicapped by the sudden death of its author...
...Amsterdam knows about one in Milan." The American public knew Germany's Bruno Frank (who died in Hollywood in 1945) principally through novels like The Persians Are Coming, but Frank's fellow writers in Europe knew his many plays and novels as well as they knew Stefan Zweig's and Lion Feuchtwanger...
...books I like, I might just as well be in the grocery business," said Mr. G. C. Cairnie, a thin-haired gentleman who runs the atelier-type Grolier Book Shoppe on upper Plympton Street. Cairnie's tastes, a hasty inspection of the shelves revealed, range from Aeschylus to Zweig, not excluding Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and Lewis Mumford. "Of course, I don't do a tremendous business," the attic entreprenur claimed, as he frightened off a young Radcliffe studen looking for a volume of Muzzey's "American History," slightly used, "but it's a living...
...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...