In the early years of her reign, she was a self-indulgent, pleasure seeking, irresponsible adolescent and young woman. Marie Antoinette's character development - as Zweig documented and brought it to life - was portrayed in a most fascinating way. It pleases me that his stories and histories, which I could then find only in an academic library in quite old editions, have now become completely accessible: for example Marie Antoinette, which I purchased as an e-book, and Magellan, which I read a few years ago ( link).Īlthough I have read a bit about the French Revolution and what led up to it (in historic works like Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolutionīy Simon Schama or fiction like City of Darkness, City of Lightīy Marge Piercy) I was surprised at how little I knew of the central role that Queen Marie Antoinette actually played during the complex events of her time. Zweig was in eclipse for quite a long time after his death in 1942, and my interest in him started shortly before this renaissance, when I read his autobiography, The World of Yesterday.
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