Josh's dissertation

In response to a request for more information on this subject, I am tentatively writing a dissertation which will compare and contrast the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig's long and short fiction. Much has been written about his novellas, with comparatively little about his novels, which were largely published after his death in February 1942, some of them remaining unfinished. Zweig was the most widely read and translated German-language author during the 1920s, and continued to remain widely popular in exile in England, the U.S., and finally Brazil. Zweig, who suffered from life-long depression, commited suicide along with his second wife in Brazil in 1942, unable to wait and see if Hitler would be defeated, and unwilling to start anew after having lived through World War I, when Austria was also a defeated power.