Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig and Rabindranath Tagore by Martin Kaempchen

Stefan Zweig (1881-1941), the Austrian writer, and Thomas Mann were introduced to Rabindranath Tagore in the summer of 1921. True to their temperament, their reactions to Tagore were quite opposite to each other. Zweig, the suave cosmopolitan and altruistic humanitarian, had visited India in the winter of 1908/09.  Read more