3:AM Magazine » A Man Out of Time

In the essay on Chartres, there is a powerful piece about the new technologically enhanced Paris and the way it has changed in recent years from the more romantic Paris of Zweig's 'golden age', the time of his youth. Again and again Zweig is nostalgic, .... Rather than just introduce us to destinations, the book's a requiem of sorts. Zweig seems to have had an inkling that this would happen, he warns in 'Requiem for a Hotel' - “only loss reveals true value”. ...