yesterday's world

"Yesterday's World" is an autobiographical literary work created by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was written between 1939 and 1941, and Zweig completed it when he was forced to go into exile before his death. Published in Stockholm in 1942, after Zweig's death.

In this work, Zweig integrates his personal destiny with the times. Through the people and things he experienced, he shows the cultural life of the cities and countries he lived in, and records the history from the eve of the First World War. In the turbulent European society during the Second World War, it describes his interactions with some world-famous poets, writers, sculptors, and musicians, and exposes the little-known life anecdotes of world cultural celebrities. The author's various delicate thoughts. Zweig wrote from the city of Vienna where he was born and his own Jewish family, until he was 60 years old in September 1939, when the Second World War broke out. The age of man has come to an end."