Encounters and Destinies

A new selection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day

Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars.

Including pieces on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky and Arturo Toscanini, this essential collection is also Zweig's tribute to the ideal of friendship: an ideal he clung to as the world he knew was torn apart.

O noua selectie de eseuri ale lui Stefan Zweig: omagii pentru marii artisti si ganditori ai Europei din vremea sa Stefan Zweig a fost unul dintre cei mai mari autori ai secolului al XX-lea si un campion neobosit al libertatii, tolerantei si prieteniei dincolo de granite. Intalnirile si destinele isi colecteaza cele mai pasionate si emotionante omagii aduse numerosilor sai ilustri prieteni si colegi: luminatori literari, filozofici si artistici din toata Europa Veche pe care Zweig i-a placut atat de mult si pe care i-a plans sa-i vada atat de crud distrusi de doua razboaie mondiale. piese pe Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky si Arturo Toscanini, aceasta colectie esentiala este, de asemenea, tributul lui Zweig adus idealului prieteniei: un ideal de care s-a agatat, intrucat lumea pe care o stia a fost sfasiata.