Casterman BD
Hard cover
Pages: 88
Full colour
ISBN: 2203041765
EAN: 9782203041769
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: 22/02/2012
February 22, 1942, exiled in Petropolis, Brazil, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig committed suicide with his wife, Lotte. Despair had taken its toll of the great humanist, a key player in European literature and major witness of the first part of the twentieth century.
In 2010, combining reality and fiction, the novel by Lawrence Seksik revisits the last six months of the couple’s life, between nostalgia and the splendour of Vienna and the call of darkness. Both Britain and the United States had rejected the couple after they had fled Austria and so Stefan and Lotte set foot in Brazil, to them the promised land. However, they were still haunted by the horror of war.
This is so well designed and written that even my poor (very poor) French got it. The fact that William Sorel is such a great artist adds much more to the book. The pacing and flow of the scenes/characters is spot on. Just lovely (if depressing).
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