Zweig's genius as a storyteller encompasses the brainy as well as those of average intelligence, the very rich and the desperately poor. He deserves to be famous again, and for good Times Literary Supplement The most perceptive tribute yet paid to one of the greatest of all Venetians, a quintessentially Viennesse essay in psychoanalysis, yet which also seeks to guarantee the survival of art against the sophistications of the psychoanalytic technique -- Jonathan Keates Spectator There are many new books clamouring for attention - but then Pushkin Press publishes another translation of the Viennese master, Stefan Zweig, and everything contemporary gets pushed aside -- Nicholas Lezard The Guardian Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilised, urbane, but never. aded or cynical; a realist who none the less believed in the possibility - the necessity - of empathy The Independent
