Nassim Taleb mentioned The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig 1 times

Vienna became trapped in Austria, with whom it shared very little outside the formal language. Imagine moving New York City to central Texas and still calling it New York. Stefan Zweig, the Viennese Jewish novelist, then considered the most influential author in the world, expressed his pain in the poignant memoir The World of Yesterday.

— Nassim Taleb

2012-11-27 in Antifragile