To this day, Zweig´s work is abundantly available in new editions across much of Europe. In France, his novellas are regularly reissued and almost invariably sprint up the best-seller lists all over again. Zweig´s books fill shop windows and airport carousels. He´s popular in Italy and Spain, and has his admirers in Germany and Austria. But in the English-speaking world, and the United States in particular, until just a few years ago Stefan Zweig had all but vanished. During the years I was growing up and studying literature, I never encountered a single work by Zweig. When I asked friends about him, I found almost no one who´d ever heard his name. As I starter to grasp just how widely he´d been read even in North America up through the early 1940s, the totality of his disappearance perplexed and intrigued me. What made Stefan Zweig fall quite so far out of sight?
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