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I’m just now seeing the real genius of this memoir. Yes, it’s a chronicle of a bygone world. Yes, it has a sad and elegiac character. But the growing up! The Bildungsroman aspect of it, the individual voice of its author coming into his own, regardless of the time and the place but deeply enmeshed in it nonetheless, is the hidden crown of this book. I love Zweig’s voice.

I love the version of Vienna which Zweig talking about here.