„PRÍBEH“ PRVEJ SVETOVEJ VOJNY ALEBO „SVET VČERAJŠKA“ V MEMOÁROVEJ PRÓZE STEFANA ZWEIGA

• Authors: Geremešová Gita

Title variants

EN

"Story" of the First World War or the „World of yesterday" in the memoir novel by Stefan Zweig

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In her article the author contemplates the autobiographical work of the Austrian writer and humanist Stefan Zweig (1881 to 1942) called “The World of Yesterday“, subtitled “The Reminiscences of the European“. Stefan Zweig wrote his autobiography while exiled in Brazil shortly before he committed suicide. On the one hand, Stefan Zweig, direct participant in and witness to two world wars within the “short“ 20th century, describes humanity’s as well as his own generation’s hopes put into the era of liberty and rationality at the background of the disintegration of the Austrian empire. On the other hand, he describes the fall of liberalism and the rise of chauvinistic nationalism (Nazism and antisemitism) associated with the degradation of man and human dignity. The great author’s faith in and desire for the rise of global civic society have been left unfulfilled until the present day.

Keywords

EN

STEFAN ZWEIG; WORLD WAR I; HUMANISM; LIBERALISM; NATIONALISM

• Publisher: Institute of Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov
• Journal: Annales Scientia Politica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 37 – 41

Contributors

author

Geremešová Gita

• Institute of Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Slovak Republic