Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Reception
7. 1: A Stefan Zweig Revival? 13
8. Part II. Drama and Fiction
9. 2: Stefan Zweig’s Drama Jeremias in Context 33
10. 3: “That Voice in the Darkness!”: Technologies of the Tropical Talking Cure in Stefan Zweig’s Der Amokläufer and Verwirrung der Gefühle 56
11. 4: Narrating Alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma of Redemption 74
12. Part III. Criticism and Essays
13. 5: Stefan Zweig and the Concept of World Literature 91
14. 6: Landscape, “Heimat,” and Artistic Production: Stefan Zweig’s Introduction to E. M. Lilien: Sein Werk 108
15. 7: Stefan Zweig’s Non-fictional Prose in Exile: Mastery of the European Genre of “Kunstprosa” 122
16. Part IV. Politics and Exile
17. 8: True to Himself: Stefan Zweig’s Visit to Argentina in September 1936 153
18. 9: Exile and Liminality in “A Land of the Future”: Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941–March 1942 173
19. 10: Stefan Zweig’s Concept of Brazil in the Context of German-Jewish Emigration 191
20. 11: Stefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile 213
21. 12: The Writer’s Political Obligations in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig 224
22. Notes on the Contributors 257
23. Index 259