Zeitlose

The artists, the scholars as stewards of the eternal on earth, must always temper the temporal, the political, the practical in the impatient hearts of people and raise their gaze to the constellations of the timeless, which, like those in the sky, stand above humanity in eternal harmony and indestructible beauty. Following "Only When Night Falls" and "Only the Living Create the World," Klaus Gräbner once again surprises with previously unpublished essays by Stefan Zweig. While "Starry Hours" focuses on German-language literature, this book contains essays on classics of foreign literature and philosophy (from Rousseau to Balzac, Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde). Gräbner rightly speaks of a "linguistic magic of Zweig, his incomparable intensity that clings to every subject like a skin." A precious rarity that truly delivers on its promise.