Memorias de un europeo
The World of Yesterday is one of the most moving and compelling accounts of our recent past, masterfully written by a European steeped in civilization and nostalgia for a world—his own—that was rapidly disintegrating. An extraordinarily popular writer and an exceptional witness to the changes that convulsed 20th-century Europe between the two world wars, Zweig, dispossessed and in a foreign land—in unexpectedly dramatic personal circumstances—recalls the pivotal moments of his life, parallel in many ways to the dismemberment of that central Europe that wanted to be freer and more secure, sheltered from madness and storm. The result is a seminal book, one of Zweig's best and an essential reference for understanding the madness of a devastating century.
"The World of Yesterday is a masterful lesson on the demolition of the links between word and truth."
Rafael Argullol, El País
