About the book: year / Stefan Zweig is an Austrian prose writer, publicist, critic, author of many short stories, a number of novels and fictionalized biographies. In the 1920s he became stunningly famous. With his characteristic sobriety, Zweig explained his success primarily by caring for the reader: like a sculptor, he, the author, cut off the unnecessary from the original text, turning it into a capacious small book. Translation from German by P. S. Bernstein.