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Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Radetzky March was the leading best-seller there. Author Joseph Roth has now taken his place with Exiles Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Stefan Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, Success). On the strength of this book, critics would have put him among them anyhow...
...went, calling out the names of practically every modern German author with whom the outside world is familiar: Karl Marx, Jakob Wassermann, Albert Einstein, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger. Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Walther Rathenau...
...Zweig agrees with Katharine Anthony that Count Fersen was Marie's lover in fact, and gives strongly circumstantial evidence to prove it. But many an anecdote that has been accepted as historical Zweig pronounces completely untrustworthy. Whatever her last words may have been, they were not, says Zweig, an apology for stepping on her executioner's toes. ("An anecdote too good to be true!") Documents in her case, he says, have been further confounded by one Baron Feuillet...
Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...
...brief study of Marie Antoinette, Katharine Anthony's book remains excellent, but Zweig's version dwarfs it. The Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it for April...