"Germany is dead. For us, she's dead ... It was a dream. See it at once, please! " In this way Joseph Roth addresses his great friend Stefan Zweig, with whom he maintained a singular and revealing correspondence that allowed them to share literary interests, intellectual affinities, personal advice and sentimental confessions. Roth, keen and obsessive, knew from the beginning the destiny that awaited him with the rise of National Socialism and exiled, while Zweig tried savagely-and in vain-to compromise, until convinced that he should emigrate. This collection of letters is not only the chronicle of a turbulent time in which barbarism was imposed, but above all the testimony of the extraordinary commitment of two great European writers of the last century to the reason and values of humanism.