Journeys

Resumen del libro

When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of inception, enticement.

For the insatiably curious and ardent Europhile Stefan Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Europe, visiting authors and friends, exploring the continent in the heyday of international rail travel. Comprising a lifetime's observations on Zweig's travels in Europe, this collection can be dipped into or savoured at length, and paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the Second World War.

Biografía del autor

Stefan Zweig es un bio grafo peculiar. Escoge personajes poco probables, figuras extremas, movidas por obsesiones y lacerantes contradicciones internas. Personajes que, como Fouche o Magallanes, se encuentran envueltos en momentos cruciales, cuyas decisiones desencadenan, de una forma u otra, consecuencias imprevisibles con repercusiones enormes. Tambie n la de otros, como von Kleist o Nietzsche, en cuya hondura, soledad y melancoli a parece que retrata Zweig la suya propia. En el caso de Nietzsche, el retrato de los tormentos del genio, el sentido moral con el que mira a la verdad, captan parte del drama interno del autor y del que este percibe en el destino de la Europa de posguerra que tiene ante si .