Stefan Zweig and intellectuals: a study about letters and others exile documents

• Grant number: 10/12979-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Juliana Pasquarelli Perez
• Grantee: Patrícia Cristina Biazão Manzato
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the letters among Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) - an Austrian Author who exiled in Brazil during the II World War and who wrote the book named Brasilien, ein Land der Zukunft (1941) - and European and Brazilian intellectuals. The work will analyze the Author's Letters of the period in which he lived here (1939-1942). For collecting the data two archives were chosen: the Biblioteca Nacional, in Rio de Janeiro and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, placed in Marbach a. N., in Germany. It will be done a survey about Zweig's Addressees and a description about the letters content in order to revealing the relations among the Austrian author and the Brazilian and European intellectuals.