茨威格是奥地利犹太人,在很大程度上,他视欧洲为自己的国家。然而,他所亲身经历的第一、第二次世界大战的那些岁月,实际上却是令他一日日失去祖国乃至失去欧洲的过程。他有一种体无完肤的沧桑之感。他在流亡的日子里怀着伤感和悲观创作的这本回忆录《昨日的世界》(三联书店1991年版),无疑成了他生命的绝唱。1942年他在远离欧洲大陆的巴西自杀身亡,因为他无法承受时代加在他身上的重负,他无法忍受没有祖国、没有文化温馨的现实。 Zweig is an Austrian Jew who to a large extent sees Europe as his own country. However, those years in which he first experienced the World War I actually made him lose the motherland and even lost Europe day by day. He has a sense of the vicissitudes of life. His memoir “The World Now Yes” (Joint Publishing 1991 edition), which he wrote sadly and pessimistically in exile, has undoubtedly become the soliloquy of his life. In 1942 he committed suicide in Brazil far from continental Europe because he could not afford the burdens imposed on him by the times. He could not stand the reality of having no motherland and no cultural warmth.