The World of Yesterday Author: [Austria] Stefan Zweig/Publisher: Writers Publishing House

Author: Stefan Zweig is a famous Austrian writer, novelist, and biographer. He is good at writing novels, biographies, poetry, drama, essays, and translations. He is known for depicting human inner impulses, such as pride, vanity, jealousy, hatred and other simple emotions, and is very sensational. His novels mostly write about people's subconscious activities and the fate of people driven by passion. His works are good at characterization and psychological portrayal of characters, and he prefers some dramatic plots. However, he does not attempt to attract readers with twists and turns and bizarre plots, but rather highlights people and things that make people linger in the dullness of life.

Translator: Shi Xingguo, a senior German translator and a regular co-translator of the Goethe-Institut Beijing Branch. He was a foreign literature researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the first representative of the Beijing office of De Gruyter Publishing House. He has participated in organizing many large-scale international conferences and seminars. He has translated many important German academic and popular books, including "Letter from a Stranger", "Never-Exhausted Topics: Rilke's Art Essays", "The Unequal World", "Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoyevsky", "Self-Care in the Animal World", etc.