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The book you quoted, The World of Yesterday, is fantastic. Thank you! What a fantastic read. I am astounded how much the world of the past, as it is described i
by lighttower 6y ago
The book you quoted, The World of Yesterday, is fantastic. Thank you! What a fantastic read. I am astounded how much the world of the past, as it is described in storybooks, was made-up, and the truth was grim and desperate.
- 082349872349872 6y agoYou're very welcome. Another recent Zweig reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 (and, for the pre-Great War predecessors of OnlyFans, see p.122 "...it held no less than twenty-seven pictures of famous dancers and actresses in extreme décolleté, as well as three or four nude photographs..." or p.67 "“Art” and nude photographs in particular were offered to half-grown boys for sale under the table by peddlers in every cafe.")
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe Nazis thought so highly of Zweig's work that "all works" of his were on the 1938 "list of damaging and unwanted writing." https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pageview/2540067 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pagevie... for even more damaging and unwanted writing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730