Reading
Volker Weidermann

How writers live through war

Fri, 19.08.2016
3:30 PM Edinburgh Futures Institute (EIBF)

Volker Weidermann and Joe Baker

Although Jo Baker's novel about a young Irish writer in 1939 Paris doesn't name Samuel Beckett, his life is clearly the inspiration – an intriguing and singular character. The literary figure at the heart of Volker Weidermann’s narrative non-fiction Summer before the Dark is Stefan Zweig. In the summer of 1936, he and his friend Joseph Roth seek intellectual exile as Europe crumbles around them.