When the biography came out, Feuchtwanger snarked that if you believe Stefan Zweig, the French Revolution would not have happened if only teen Louis XVI had been able to ejaculate properly.
I'm in good company, then!
it’s worth remembering that Stefan Zweig wasn’t just into Freud as part of being a writer of the first half of the 20th century. No, he was actually a Viennese going to Freud for therapy and corresponding with him when not in the same city.
Worth remembering or worth learning from you, as the case may be. :) Thank you, didn't know this!
Zweig’s arch rival in the biographie romancee area, Emil Ludwig
Did he write any biographies you can recommend?
the different way Lafayette is treated by US writers seeing him in the context of American history vs French and other continental European writers. Since he has a walk-on part in MA’s story, did this strike you as well?
Yes, it did! See, as an American, I acquired a very un-nuanced, one-dimensional picture of Lafayette over the years, which basically comes down to: "Lafayette, a success!" I've fleshed it out slightly thanks to his appearances in Mobster AU's modern AU, but basically that's still the picture in my head, even though I now know there's more to it than that.
So when he gets his walk-on part in Zweig, and he's not successful, and Zweig is rolling his eyes at him, my immediate reaction was: "Well, that's different."
Re: Zweig
I'm in good company, then!
it’s worth remembering that Stefan Zweig wasn’t just into Freud as part of being a writer of the first half of the 20th century. No, he was actually a Viennese going to Freud for therapy and corresponding with him when not in the same city.
Worth remembering or worth learning from you, as the case may be. :) Thank you, didn't know this!
Zweig’s arch rival in the biographie romancee area, Emil Ludwig
Did he write any biographies you can recommend?
the different way Lafayette is treated by US writers seeing him in the context of American history vs French and other continental European writers. Since he has a walk-on part in MA’s story, did this strike you as well?
Yes, it did! See, as an American, I acquired a very un-nuanced, one-dimensional picture of Lafayette over the years, which basically comes down to: "Lafayette, a success!" I've fleshed it out slightly thanks to his appearances in Mobster AU's modern AU, but basically that's still the picture in my head, even though I now know there's more to it than that.
So when he gets his walk-on part in Zweig, and he's not successful, and Zweig is rolling his eyes at him, my immediate reaction was: "Well, that's different."