Stefan-Zweig
By David Mehegan This minimal memoir reminds me of a backyard clothesline, festooned with socks, shirts, pants, dishtowels, suspenders, underwear, bras, new things and old, all in various colors and shapes, flapping briskly in the wind. The Chessboard by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver. Other Press. 191 pp. Paper. $16.99. Jean-Philippe…
Maria Schrader has set herself a very ambitious agenda in Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe.
Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.
Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.
It should be pointed out that in London it is possible to see more shows in a limited time than one can do in the United States. Why? Because it has long been the sensible practice to stagger weekday matinees. By Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare first, of course. The British quite rightly never tire of “Hamlet.”…
By Harvey Blume Zugzwang,by Ronan Bennett (Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages) It’s an understatement to say chess has been good for literature; the game has even inspired people not known for the written word to produce memorable prose. Consider the following, for example, by composer Sergey Prokofiev apropos a game he witnessed in pre-World War I…
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