Brazil: A Land of the Future

The Austrian poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and essayist, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), committed suicide partly in despair over the rise of the Third Reich; but in the late 1930s, Zweig traveled to Brazil and wrote about its cities, history, economy, and culture. Zweig loved Barzil, considered it an exemplary nation the West should follow, and called it "one of our best hopes for a future civilizing and pacification of a world that has been desolated by hate and madness." A brief chronology of Brazil is included. Translated from the German (Williams Verlag AG, Zürich; translator Bangerter provides a brief afterword. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR