Teaching Claude to Write Like Zweig

I recently finished reading Stefan Zweig&rsquo;s memoir, The World of Yesterday. It&rsquo;s less a memoir than an elegy for an entire European culture, burned to the ground by two wars and fascism. He finished it in exile in Brazil, 1942, a long way from the Vienna he was mourning, one day before he and his wife took their own lives. That&rsquo;s a heavy place to find writing advice. A short,…