The Suicide of an Era. In Praise of Zweig, the Last Singer of a Vanished Europe

«I was born in a great, mighty empire, in the Habsburg monarchy, but don’t go looking for it on the map, it has disappeared without a trace. I grew up in Vienna, a two-thousand-year-old supranational metropolis, and I had to leave it like a criminal before it was degraded to a German provincial town. I now belong nowhere, I am everywhere a stranger and at most a guest; even the true homeland that my heart had chosen, Europe, is lost to me since …