The World That No Longer Exists. On the Memoirs of Otto Friedlaender, Stefan Zweig and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
The World That No Longer Exists. On the Memoirs of Otto Friedlaender, Stefan Zweig and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the memoirs of writers connected with Vienna in their youth, namely Stefan Zweig and Otto Friedlaender, as well as Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, who is associated with Cracow. The considerations are based on references to the findings of geopoetics, the problem of place and autobiography. The writers’ memoirs deal with the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, covering various aspects of the social life of the time, material and spiritual culture and established customs. The memoirists also record changes in artistic life, introduce literary groups and circles and well-known figures of the time. They are both observers and participants in the life of the turn of the century, and their accounts are treated as memoirs, sketches, reports and autobiographies.

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