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Nassim Taleb
“Vienna became trapped in Austria, with whom it shared very little outside the formal language. Imagine moving New York City to central Texas and still calling it New York. Stefan Zweig, the Viennese Jewish novelist, then considered the most influential author in the world, expressed his pain in the poignant memoir The World of Yesterday.”
Nat Friedman
“"On @patrickc's recommendation, thoroughly enjoyed The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig: https://www.amazon.com/World-Yesterday-Stefan-Zweig/dp/1906548676/ His description of the pre-WW1 world is fascinating: the social and economic stability of bourgeois Austria, the stardom of poets, the "small group theory" of his Viennese friends and their fascination with literature and theater, the non-existence of passports. And then the utter chaos of the post-war period and its hyperinflation. Extremely memorable and poignant, especially knowing that Zweig, finding himself in a post-WW2 world that was not his, eventually took his own life."”↗
