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The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. The resurgence in interest in Zweig and his works is attested to by, among other things, new English translations and editions of his works; a Brazilian motion picture and a best-selling French novel about his final days; and a renewed debate surrounding the literary quality of his work in the London Review of Books. This global return to Zweig calls for a critical reassessment of his legacy and works, which the current collection of essays provides by approaching them from a global perspective as opposed to the narrow European focus through which they have been traditionally approached. Together, the introduction and twelve essays engage the totality of Zweig's published and unpublished works from his drama and his fiction to his letters and his biographies, and from his literary and art criticism to his autobiography. Contributors: Jeffrey B. Berlin, Richard Benson, Darién J. Davis, Marlen Eckl, Mark H. Gelber, Robert Kelz, Klemens Renoldner, Birger Vanwesenbeeck, John Warren, Klaus Weissenberger, Robert Weldon Whalen, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. Birger Vanwesenbeeck is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York-Fredonia. Mark H. Gelber is Professor of German at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber -- Part I: Reception -- A Stefan Zweig revival? / Birger vanwesenbeeck -- Part II: Drama and Fiction -- Stefan Zweig's Drama Jeremias in context / John Warren -- "That voice in the darkness!": technologies of the tropical talking cure in -- Stefan Zweig's Der Amoklaufer and Verwirrung der Gefuhle / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- Narrating alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the trauma of redemption / Robert Weldon Whalen -- Part III: Criticism and essays -- Stefan Zweig and the concept of world literature / Mark H. Gelber -- Landscape, "Heimat," and artistic production: Stefan Zweig's introduction to E.M. Lilien: Sein Werk / Richard V. Benson -- Stefan Zweig's non-fictional prose in exile: mastery of the European genre of "Kunstprosa" / Klaus Weissenberger -- Part IV: Politics and exile -- The writer's political obligations in exile: the case of Stefan Zweig / Jeffrey B. Berlin -- True to himself: Stefan Zweig's visit to Argentina in September 1936 / Robert Kelz -- Exile and liminality in "A Land of the Future": Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941-March 1942 / Darien J. Davis -- Stefan Zweig's concept of Brazil in the context of German-Jewish emigration / Marlen Eckl -- Stefan Zweig: life in cities of exile / Klemens Renoldner -- Notes on the contributors -- Index
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