In his memoirs, which he finished writing in February 1942, Stefan Zweig recalled the first days of the war in 1914. In a belligerent world, friendship had become a trying matter. A letter arrived in Vienna from Romain Rolland, with the line: 'Non, je ne quitterai jamais mes amis.'It was, considered Zweig, a time still more civilised than the Second War, when the printed words of intellectuals no longer carried weight.A new translation from the German into French and English, this book is part of the Luminary Collection.
