The World of Yesterday
Memoirs of a European
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Stefan Zweig recalls the cultural confidence of prewar Vienna, the shocks of the First World War, the instability between the wars, and the destruction of the European world in which he was formed.
The memoir adds a personal account of cosmopolitan life, exile, nationalism, and the collapse of an older European order.
Why I include it
Place this at the center of the path as a firsthand bridge between the imperial setting and the fractured national memories of twentieth-century Europe.
