Re:1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all li...
by odiroot on Thursday September 12, 2024 @02:09PM
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> I highly recommend Stefan Zweig's "The World of Yesterday", his memoirs of life before WW1
I'm only about 1/3 in but as far as I can tell Zweig only claimed Vienna to be this "enlightened" place. He's still writing quite a lot of critique of the rest of Austria. He's also fully aware of how fragile that Viennese subculture is.
I'm only about 1/3 in but as far as I can tell Zweig only claimed Vienna to be this "enlightened" place. He's still writing quite a lot of critique of the rest of Austria. He's also fully aware of how fragile that Viennese subculture is.