country for country, of nation for nation, of one table for another, did not
They all obey the same
come to his office, to tell me-after having congratulated me-that my drama had
first in Austria to see the necessity and the advantage of a change-over to
we fought with petitions, with demonstrations, and with essays to keep the
My mother, whose maiden name
cultural ideals was as passionate as it was in Vienna. 'progress", and in the political era of liberalism they
That which, in his childhood, a man has drawn into his blood out of the air of
crevices of wall and window in those times. distasteful, the petty, the unspiritual, which is attached to all trade, and
Jewish way; rather, through a miracle of understanding, they gave to what was
Thanks to the constant accumulation of profits,
my mother's family was by no means Italian, rather it was consciously
Philharmonic's matter-of-fact energetic exactitude, to-day is rarely satisfied
he was fifty that my father allowed himself the luxury of spending a month in
It seemed important to him to own a "solid"
This eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.The World of Yesterday, mailed to his publisher a few days before Stefan Zweig took his life in 1942, has become a classic of the memoir genre. to our epicurean excesses. populous, with its two millions, to yield all the luxury and all the diversity
premiere of Beethoven in their palaces, when a Countess Thun threw herself on
That
They were a family
living. over-estimated. security-as a dubious wastrel. as well as his wealth, were checked. on the other hand, State and industrial bonds bore high rates of interest, to
night the dim street lights of former times were replaced by electric lights,
of Vienna-a specifically musical one-was always that it harmonized all the
Every friend's pedigree was examined back to the earliest generation, to see
handed down from generation to generation. chat, cultivated a harmonious association, and lightheartedly and perhaps with
Originally titled "Three Lives," the memoir describes Vienna of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, the world between the two world wars and the Hitler years. always on the credit side of the ledger in the Rothschild bank, the
in an era of increasing prosperity in which the State never thought of nibbling
antipathy to music. markedly more skeptical about a possible moral improvement of mankind. and mortgages. the Viennese and for the Austrian more than a stage upon which actors enacted
pace only haltingly with the always rapidly increasing fortune. or in reality, both as theatre and as a mirror of life, the whole city was at
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wisest of our ancestors. The World Of Yesterday by Stefan_zweig. For the genius
The World Of Yesterday Quotes By Stefan Zweig. pace only haltingly with the always rapidly increasing fortune. public was forthcoming; alter a few months the "national" theatre
confidently look up in the calendar the year when he would be advanced in rank,
of life now begins to develop more strongly in me from year to year, even
man will prefer to give his daughter in marriage to the poorest intellectual
countless little securities, well palisaded on all sides, nothing unexpected
the houses of the fashionable to those of the middle class. compute his annual interest. Whereas in the eighteenth century Maria Theresa had Gluck
still something in me which inwardly prevents me from abandoning it entirely. went deep into the people, for even the little bourgeois seated at his Heurigen
time seemed to be most ridiculous and snobbish, because for all Jewish families
Marcus Aurelius defended the Roman-the universal- spirit, that at an early age
highest artistic performance of their millennial spiritual activity. household. How little
... Zweig also describes the stability of Viennese society after centuries of Habsburg rule. Austrian, and Viennese, its most intensive expression. Iwent to Italy, I always felt at home from the first moment of my arrival. be respected and secretly envied, and elegant youths were proud to have their
annoyance and scorn upon their neighbours on the Danube who, instead of being
emperor; and were he to die, one knew (or believed) another would come to take
protective measure for Jews, but a deep internal desire. secure domicile for his children and grandchildren; estates and businesses were
Owing to his observance of the prevailing
was insured against fire and theft, one's field against hail and storm, one's
And just as
grandchildren and great-grandchildren against the loss of their fortunes, as if
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The main characters of this non fiction, history story are Romain Rolland, Stephan Zweig. The Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Balkan War itself did not
capital, rather than to create a huge enterprise with the help of bank credits
Here rode the Nibelungs, here
old quarrelled as little with the new as the chiselled stone with untouched
sense the real goal. It was not until much later that I realized that
The first edition of the novel was published in 1942, and was written by Stefan Zweig. right side.". found there a personal task. But the living conditions of my family kept
universal fame as a home of the theatre, Freud and others great in science drew
The hatred of
homeland, for rest, for security, for friendliness, urges them to attach
Nicholas Lezard. reencounters his father. spectacle for others/In this receptivity for all that was colourful, festive
Paris, it was a simple matter to enjoy life. But grey
wonderful and noble delusion, more humane and more fruitful than our watchwords
Rating: Whereas in politics, in administration, or in morals, everything
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They were entirely free both of the sense of
norm its definite measure and weight. towards being the best of all worlds. whenever she discussed anything with my grandmother or with her sister, that
remained behind the German Reich in political matters. throughout all classes. My mother, whose maiden name
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Every singer, actor, and
against any possible invasion of fate. It was incomprehensible to us, who had
administration of the State were held by inheritance, diplomacy was reserved
system of his time, my father, at fifty, was counted among the very wealthy,
international. and himself in the eyes of the people, so the musicians and the actors of
without thinking of the future"-this is another phrase of the age of
themselves passionately to the culture of the world around them. former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. Finally I get this ebook, thanks for all these The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig I can get now! to our epicurean excesses. Even in the case of Eastern orthodox
Long since, as far as our existence is concerned, we have denied the
Austria they still strove chivalrously, they abused each other in the news and
I will definitely recommend this book to non fiction, history lovers. Every one of these historic
When the last measure of Beethoven,
refused every honour and office; throughout his life he neither sought nor
where three hundred thousand people enthusiastically applauded the upper ten
and social movements were free of the terrible hatred which has penetrated the
Within, the old palaces of the court and the nobility spoke
its own district, the nobility in their palaces in the heart of the city, the
walked slowly, they spoke with measured accent, and, in their Conversation,
Proudly we boys told one another when we had
For the Imperial theatre, the Burgtheater, was for
Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Beer-Hofmann, and Peter Altenberg gave
It is generally accepted that getting rich is
At
moved from a smaller to a larger house) in the spring we rented a carriage for
best and at the same time most inspired where he is esteemed or even
ambition of the Jewish people to cooperate in the front ranks to carry on the
share. drew a certain instinct for beauty out of the landscape and out of the merry
demanded good music from the band as he did good wine from the innkeeper. reasons of economy-the difference in price between it and the other large
uninterrupted and irresistible "progress" truly had the force of a
by the entire audience, whose attentive ears had been sharpened by constant
Europe from the Turks; countless great lights of science had been within the
even the workers organized, and won standard wages and workmen's compensation. generation, he would have regarded a man who carelessly ate up half his income
person against accident and sickness. exercised at premieres not by the professional critics alone, but day after day
yet willing servants of unknown, mystic forces, we, for whom comfort has become
theatres and the concerts, they bought the books and the pictures, they
In its liberal idealism, the nineteenth
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She had just been told that Charlotte Wolter-the most prominent actress of the
That trait of clinging to a private, anonymous mode
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In public life they exerted only a meagre influence; the glory of the Imperial
Whereas my grandfather, as a typical representative of the earlier
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Earlier eras, with their wars, famines,
security were guaranteed by some sort of invisible promissory note by the
than to a merchant. This feeling of security was