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Decisive Moments in History

 
Twelve Historical Miniatures

 
Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought
 
Translation Series

 
Stefan Zweig

 
Decisive Moments
in History

 
Twelve Historical Miniatures
Translated and with an Afterword

 
by
Lowell A. Bangerter

 
ARIADNE PRESS
Riverside, California

 
Ariadne Press would like to express its appreciation to the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York and the Bundeskanzleramt - Sektion Kunst, Vienna for their assistance in publishing this book.

 
Translated from the German Sternstunden der Menschheit
@Williams Verlag AG, Zurich

 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.
[Sternstunden der Menschheit. English]
Decisive moments in history: twelve historical miniatures /
Stefan Zweig; translated and with an afterword by Lowell A Bangerter.
p.           
em. -- (Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series)        
ISBN 978-1-57241-192-0
I. History-Literary collections. 
I. Bangerter, Lowell A., 1941-
II. Title. III. Series. PT2653.W42S3537 
1999
838’.91209—dc21
98-29776
CIP

 
Cover Design:
Art Director and Designer: George McGinnis

 
Copyright ©1999
by Ariadne Press
270 Goins Court
Riverside, CA 92507

 
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without formal permission.

 
ISBN 978-1-57241-192-0

 
Contents

 
Foreword
Flight into Immortality
The Conquest of Byzantium
George Frederick Handel’s Resurrection
The Genius of One Night
The World Minute of Waterloo
The Marienbad Elegy
The Discovery of El Dorado
Heroic Moment
The First Word to Cross the Ocean
Escape to God
The Battle for the South Pole
The Sealed Train
Afterword

 
Foreword

 
No artist is unceasingly an artist during the entire twenty four hours of his daily life; every substantial, lasting success that he achieves always comes into being only in those few rare moments of inspiration. Similarly, history, in which we admire the greatest poet and actor of all time, is by no means ceaselessly creative. Even in this “mysterious workshop of God,” as Goethe reverently called history, a vast number of insignificant and mundane things occur. Even here, as everywhere in art and life, the sublime, unforgettable moments are rare. Usually, as an annalist history indifferently and persistently does nothing but add link to link in that enormous chain that stretches through the millennia, ............

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