Benno Geiger Stefan Sweig "Non mi puoi cancellare dalla memoria" Lettere 1904-1939 edited by Diana Battisti foreword by Marco Meli

This book by Marsilio: Benno Geiger Stefan Sweig "Non mi puoi cancellare dalla memoria" Lettere 1904-1939 in english "You can't deleted me from your memory " Letters 1904-1939 edited by Diana Battisti foreword by Marco Meli introduces to the italian public the correspondence between these two Austrians's men of cultures, Stefan Sweig and Benno Geiger.
The first one will always live a melancholic life, although he traveled during his life so badly and didn't live a poor life; but Sweig's melancholy for the past and for the current situation that became day by day in Europe always more heavy will kill himself. Benno Geiger was a positive spirit, the one in grade to seeing the beauty of the world also thanks to wonderful italian writers from the remote past in grade of let him discover a different reality also in the horror of that decades. We are what we read and I think that Benno can testifies it pretty clearly.

Benno will see the European reconstruction while the first one will decide of killing himself in 1942. Sweig wrote to his wife that now that he had taken that decision he felt a lot of joy.

I admit that I was waiting for long and elaborated letters between these two intellectuals, while often these letters are long like telegrams. Intensity remains also when letters are briefs; their feelings for literature and poetry; their research for being published in years so difficult and cruel for Jewish people; they are thankful when books were sent as a gift to the correspondent asking for opinions; or sometimes they share poems for special occasions like birthdays; friendship, suggestions with good recommendations about places and restaurants where sleeping and eating when traveling. Help absorbed more or less all the meaning of this word in their case. The correspondence ended on 1939.

I highly suggest you this book in particular if you like the epistolary genre.

I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori