The World of Yesterday

15 hrs. 23 min.

Language Russian

Author Stefan Zweig

Narrator Ilya Dementyev

Description

“Yesterday’s World” is the last work of the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, written in exile during the height of World War II. This book is the author’s farewell. Zweig looks back for the last time on the magnificent European culture that German troops were doomed to destroy. He lists the titles of books, cities, and streets, as well as the happy and sad events that shaped the first half of the 20th century—and he writes with love about the people he is proud to have known. However, “Yesterday’s World” is not just a collection of memories. The work was conceived as an open confession of a person of his time. In the preface, Zweig notes that it took him a great deal of life experience—many events, trials, and catastrophes—before he found the courage to start a book where his “I” becomes the central figure.