Zweig
Arnold
[ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nawlt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1968, German novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
Stefan
[stef-uh n,, -ahn;; German shte-fahn] /ˈstɛf ən,, -ɑn;; German ˈʃtɛ fɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1942, Austrian dramatist, critic, biographer, and novelist.
Contemporary Examples
One feels the same sense of dislocation reading Zweig, his world is indeed a “world of yesterday”.
Wes Anderson’s Austrian Muse: Stefan Zweig Lucy Scholes February 25, 2014
Three years later, Zweig died in Brazil in a double suicide with his wife.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Jan. 26, 2012 Jimmy So January 25, 2012
Were you flipping through a Zweig novel and suddenly got inspired to write the film?
Wes Anderson Takes Us Inside ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ His Most Exquisite Film Marlow Stern March 3, 2014
Many authors are lauded for successfully capturing the zeitgeist but Zweig outdid them all.
Wes Anderson’s Austrian Muse: Stefan Zweig Lucy Scholes February 25, 2014
Zweig was born into an affluent Jewish family in Vienna in 1881.
Wes Anderson’s Austrian Muse: Stefan Zweig Lucy Scholes February 25, 2014
Historical Examples
Zweig has steered his course skilfully between the dangers of archaism and anachronism.
The Forerunners Romain Rolland
noun
Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1887–1968, German novelist, famous for his realistic war novel The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
Stefan (ˈʃtɛfan). 1881–1942, Austrian novelist, dramatist, essayist, and poet
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