{"title":"Stefan Zweig’s Narratives of Migration and Emigration","authors":"László V. Szabó","doi":"10.54103/1593-2478/21674","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Stefan Zweig’s relation to the phenomenon of migration is indeed a complicated issue, which can be approached from at least three perspectives. Firstly, there is the biographic aspect: as one of the major representatives of the German exile literature (Exilliteratur), Zweig has one of the most dramatic biographies among the German authors in the 20th century, including his emigration from Austria to England and New York, then to South America, where (in Petrópolis near Rio de Janeiro) he died in February 1942. Secondly, migration is present in his fictional works, such as the short stories Schachnovelle or Incident on Lake Geneva. Thirdly, Zweig published, a year before his death, his book Brazil, Land of the Future, which, lacking fictitious elements, but including biographic ones, basically summarizes the history (also immigration-history) of Brazil and the main cultural features of his host country. Accordingly, the following paper is a brief analysis of three possible dimensions of migration in Stefan Zweig: biographic migration, including his voluntary and, later, his forced migration, finally fictional migration, i.e. migration as a subject of his works.","PeriodicalId":40158,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theodisca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studia Theodisca","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54103/1593-2478/21674","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Stefan Zweig’s relation to the phenomenon of migration is indeed a complicated issue, which can be approached from at least three perspectives. Firstly, there is the biographic aspect: as one of the major representatives of the German exile literature (Exilliteratur), Zweig has one of the most dramatic biographies among the German authors in the 20th century, including his emigration from Austria to England and New York, then to South America, where (in Petrópolis near Rio de Janeiro) he died in February 1942. Secondly, migration is present in his fictional works, such as the short stories Schachnovelle or Incident on Lake Geneva. Thirdly, Zweig published, a year before his death, his book Brazil, Land of the Future, which, lacking fictitious elements, but including biographic ones, basically summarizes the history (also immigration-history) of Brazil and the main cultural features of his host country. Accordingly, the following paper is a brief analysis of three possible dimensions of migration in Stefan Zweig: biographic migration, including his voluntary and, later, his forced migration, finally fictional migration, i.e. migration as a subject of his works.
斯特凡-茨威格与移民现象的关系的确是一个复杂的问题,至少可以从三个角度来探讨。首先是传记方面:作为德国流亡文学(Exilliteratur)的主要代表之一,茨威格的传记是 20 世纪德国作家中最富戏剧性的,包括他从奥地利移民到英国和纽约,然后到南美,1942 年 2 月在南美(里约热内卢附近的彼得罗波利斯)去世。其次,他的小说作品,如短篇小说《沙赫诺维尔》(Schachnovelle)和《日内瓦湖事件》(Incident on Lake Geneva)中也有移民的描写。第三,茨威格在逝世前一年出版了《巴西,未来之国》一书,书中没有虚构成分,但有传记成分,基本上概括了巴西的历史(也是移民史)和他的东道国的主要文化特征。因此,下文将简要分析斯蒂芬-茨威格笔下移民的三个可能层面:传记性移民,包括他的自愿移民和后来的被迫移民;最后是虚构性移民,即作为其作品主题的移民。