Books by George Prochnik, George PROCHNIK

12. Stefan Zweig . The World of Yesterday is a favorite, sad and bittersweet, and it treats the European civilization that was passing away at the time of the Second World War, still relevant.  Zweig committed suicide in Brazil, here is an excellent biography .  The rest of his fiction still is read around much of the world (not so much America, famously in Russia), but I find it pretty ordinary and of its time.

That is the new and truly excellent book by George Prochnik , think of it as a selective biography focused on themes of exile, perversion, Brazil, and suicide.  Excerpt: