Yesterday's World

Stefan Zweig, in the preface of his book called Yesterday's World, which he wrote as Memoirs of a European, says, "What I will write about is not what I experienced, but what an entire generation experienced." 19. The generations that grew up in the relatively safe, monotonous environment of Europe in the 20th century were faced with such events at the beginning of the 20th century that the events and radical changes that perhaps nine or ten generations would have experienced in other times caused irreparable wounds in the hearts and souls of the people of this generation. In the years when all bridges between yesterday and today were destroyed and all values were turned upside down, two world wars in a row, the birth and growth of National Socialism in Germany, the pain of being separated from his home and country, migrating from country to country, and seeing the destruction of Europe, which he considered his homeland, he died in 1942. The memoirs of this sensitive writer who ended his life are considered not only a personal narrative, but also a handbook of the spiritual world of the first half of our century. Stating that there is no disaster in his 60 years of life that he has not seen, witnessed or suffered from, Stefan Zweig says, "If we can convey even a crumb of the truth to the next generation with what we tell, we will not have lived in vain."



Number of Pages: 338

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayınları

Number of Pages: 338

First Printing Year: 2000

Language Turkish