Humanist Explorations - Letter From an Unknown Woman

In the nineteen twenties and thirties, Stefan Zweig, a Viennese Jew, was a highly regarded and extremely popular author, with numerous works of both fiction and non-fiction. One of the world's most widely translated writers, he completed his memoir The World of Yesterday in exile, having fled his beloved Europe in 1934 with the rise of Nazism. In 1942, heartbroken over the state of culture and civilization, he committed suicide with his wife in Brazil. Decades later, in 2014, the filmmaker Wes Anderson based his film The Grand Budapest Hotel on Zweig's work. One of Zweig's best-known works, Letter From an Unknown Woman, was dramatized in a film directed by Max Ophüls in 1948, starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan. This touching and heartrending tale is our presentation this month.

Join us for snacks and conversation, followed by the the film and then discussion.